I have been thinking about my dad a lot these days. My mom was a stay at home mom, and my dad worked every day, so we didn't see him as much and work made him grumpy. However my dad had traditions with his daughters, like how he used to take us out of school to go on "daddy daughter dates" to the movies. We saw all three Star Wars movies when they were remastered and re-released in theaters, along with many other movies. We also used to go on "daddy daughter camp-outs" every year. He would take us canoeing, and bike ridding, and on long drives in which he would say "we have a full tank of gas, we aren't lost we are on an adventure". I remember at the beach one year we woke up super early and went to get hot chocolate from 7-11 and we sat on the beach and watched the sun rise, just the two of us.
I was home schooled from the middle of fifth grade until I graduated high school. There are many positives and many negatives about being home schooled, but I don't want to talk about them now, what I want to talk about is how the best part of being home schooled was going shooting with my dad.
I think my mom wrote shooting off as Physical Education, but it was so much more fun than anything I ever did in P.E. Shooting takes so much focus, that it is really relaxing, which is something that non gun people really don't understand. This is one of my targets from the first time when we went and shot 22s, I think I was about eleven. I really appreciate the time I spent at the range with him. I am really fortunate to have my Dad, I love him very much and I hope to continue to have adventures, and outings with him for years to come.
