happy birthday pa!!

It’s my pa’s birthday tomoro…
Gosh he turns 57… he really does not feel that old…
I was once asked who inspires me… and I thought of my pa… I can never get one image out of my mind… every Sunday, he would give our car washer the morning off...and would take my little brother and me down to help clean the car… it was an early morning Sunday ritual for us… we would be put to work… I loved working my soapy water into a crazy foamy state in my mug with a thick paint brush… I used to make the white strip on the tyres shine… and my brother used to be the tiny one who was sent into all the little corners of the car that we could not reach… he used to love using the hose…
But the fun part really was when he used to get us to start pulling out all the weeds around the building and cleaning up… I used to love taking the ‘sheek’ broom and clean the place… pick up rubbish… wet the earth… so so so much fun… and mom would be making us special breakfast and freaking out when we entered the house all messy…
Love some of the memories he made for us… taught us so much in his simple ways.. he never preached… did it first and we simply followed… what a special person…
I don’t know how we will ever become the kind of parents they have been…
Happy birthday dear pa…