If you read my posts... you will recognize my favorite photo. This isn't the first time I've used it in a post, but you asked for the story of my favorite photo and this well, it's not among my favorite photos, it IS MY VERY FAVORITE photo. This is my Kodak Moment!
My
Daddy was in the Navy when I was born. Just 5 months into their young marriage my mom moved back home to Eatonton Georgia when my Daddy was deployed overseas. He was sent to Antarticia on an ice breaker. They had lived together for that 5 months in Lakehurst, NJ. And by that time my mom was expecting and did NOT want to be alone hours and states and states away from her family. So before my Daddy shipped out he brought my mom home to her parents house.
I was born on St. Patrick's Day 1965. My Papa had to leave work and go home and drive my mom to the hospital. I went home with my mom to her parents house. They actually gave her the newest bedroom in their house. A recent new kitchen had been added and the old kitchen, now converted to a bedroom was my first home. My Daddy didn't even know the actual day I was born. The telegram he received on the ship said:
"Baby girl born today (stop) Mother and baby doing fine (stop)."
It was the 18th when it arrived (at least where he was) so he believed I was born on March 18th. I was already 5 weeks old before my Daddy arrived back in Eatonton to take Mom and me back to New Jersey with him. This photo was taken that day. This photo is the very first time my Daddy looked into my tiny little face and the very first time that I looked up and saw my Daddy.
I am a lucky lady. I'm fortunate enough to still have my Daddy. And the love we have for one another and have had through all the last 45 years seems to be captured in this photograph of our very first meeting. The love of when my Daddy was teaching my to drive when I was 15 can be found in this photo. The love of when my Daddy took me and the shot gun and rode around town looking for the boys and the car they tried to make me get into when I was in the second grade can be found in this photo. The love of my Daddy walking up to me at my wedding reception (of my current marriage) and telling me "I think this one will stick" can be found in this photo. The love of my Daddy loaning me $25,000 of my down payment (of course that was my mom too) to buy Lane Realty can be found in this photo.
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The silliness of me giving my Daddy an elephant for every birthday, father's day and Christmas that rolls 'round even though he "DOES NOT" collect them can be found in this photo.
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The love of the happy memories of me sitting every night by my Daddy on the sofa watching television saying "scratch my back" and getting it done. My poor husband had no idea how spoiled to that I was.
I love my Daddy, he's the best man I know. And my Daddy loves me. A you can see it and you've been able to see it since the day we met.
This post is written as a submission to the ActiveRain 'Kodak Moments' contest. I have the chance to win the KODAK EASYSHARE M580 Digital Camera
To participate in the ActiveRain contest, visit the blog post announcing the contest from Kodak and ActiveRain.
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