No Way ...

Tomorrow my dad turns 60 years old and my response is ... no way. I have to blog about this now on a Monday night as I'm thinking about it. I forgot to blog on my mom's birthday ( Happy Birthday mom!) which was last weekend and then yesterday on my brother's birthday (Happy Birthday Pat). Ever since our trip from Holland we've had the Birthday bananza ... my mom celebrated her bday with a nice dinner at their house as we were all still trying to overcome our jet lag. Pat's birthday yesterday was nice, everyone came over, Phil cooked, and we played some ping pong. Tomorrow night we'll be going out to dinner so dad can have a night off of cooking for his birthday and I think I'll be just too stuffed to type! I hear dad is also going to run and ride his harley tomorrow =)

So back to the reason for this post ... no way my dad is turning 60 tomorrow when he doesn't look a day over well a day over as far back as I can remember ... which is quite a while back. My dad and I have always had a very close bond. We have the same personality, mentality, philosophy on life, same injuries, same humor, same most everything ... i guess you can say we relate. We even have the same pace in running which is why all the years I lived at home if on a weekend I was given the choice to either exercise with dad or mom I would pick dad. You see my dad ran at just the right pace and went just the right amount (as apposed to my mom who ran faster and longer - right mom!). We always joked that one day we'd go full circle ... meaning when I was little I used to accompany him on my bike as he ran every weekend, then probably around the time I was in high school we would run together with our trusted 1st dog Pitha, and then there was supposed to come a time where I would be running and my dad would be on a bike or a wheel chair or a scooter ... basically something with wheels. So here we are and my dad is 60 and I don't even feel like the time is near at all when he's going to need a bike or a scooter and then I think I really don't want to run next to my dad when's HE'S on a bike ... he's a dutch-man and well that would just be cheating.

So here's to you dad ... 60 years young =) Happy Birthday! I love you!