i love my grandpa
for father’s day i sent my grandpa a card. in it, i wrote down my top 10 most memorable moments with him. i think it went something like this:
1. when he prayed with me to receive Jesus in my heart, i was 5. i was sitting on the toilet when it dawned on me i needed to do it so i yelled for help “GRANDPA!”
2. when i got the part of Annie in an off-broadway play in Seattle, and since he was taking me to all my rehearsals, he became a stage-hand.
3. when he bought me a purple, leather Univ. of Washington Huskies jacket for my 10th birthday.
4. when he’d pick me up for school in the mornings, so i didn’t have to ride the bus, and we’d go to mcdonalds for bacon, egg and cheese.
5. when he’d let me and my friends have sleepovers at his bakery and stay up really late eating all the cookies and donuts and playing hide and go seek in his freezers.
6. when he’d take me on his fishing boat and let me watch him chop the fishes heads off!
7. when he dared for me to go parasailing while we were in hawaii and paid for it when i faced my fears.
8. when he and i sat in roberts western world in nashville, tn listening to his all-time favorite music, bluegrass.
9. when he and grandma got to hear me sing at the GMA festival in estes park, colorado.
10. every hug i’ve ever gotten from him – how they never last long enough because he starts to cry and has to “man up” 
I love my grandpa. What’s yours like?
Great top 10. I miss my grandpa a lot. I loved going to his farm and sitting on the front porch with him and watching him smoke. He rolled his own, with Prince Albert tobacco. I didn’t realize until years later that the wonderful fried chicken grandma prepared required one of the barnyard chickens to get it’s head chopped off. I’m glad he didn’t let me watch that part.