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[RoughShod]

My daughters arranged that we go out fishing today and since I haven't gone fishing for about 7 years I was a bit nervous about if I could even cast anymore.

Anyway...it was up early....take in breakfast...prepare a snack for lunch....make sure I have all the necessary equipment....that the reel seems to run free...dust off that old rod . And wonder what it will be like to fish with my daughters and one of their boyfriends.
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After a 45 minute drive to the fishing site I began to feel the excitement of casting into that huge sea in anticipation of a fresh meal of fish.

It was just silly fun being together. It was a great day. We never got any fish though, but almost...one took up my line and brought it inshore, but other fisherman to my right had cast their lines to my left, I had cast my line straight over them, so entanglement ensued and all I had was a bare hook.

we came home and said our goodbyes..then my daughters changed mind and wanted to have tea with me. It was really a great fathers day for me, I hope You all had a great fathers day.

[moll]

Roughshod, I think you must have been a good daddy to your girls 8)

This is what I did today...

Got up

Sat about reading the papers

Washed the pink linen jacket I was wearing last night when the waitress decided to chuck a plate of chicken something over it :twisted:

Was going to meet my sister for lunch, then remembered it was Father's Day and my daughter would probably make an appearance, changed plans

Went out for lunch when she arrived, had not very nice meal :cry: but my daughter is a real daddy's girl, what is it about fathers and daughters?

Came home, read the papers some more and did a little bit of tidying up

And that was my really exciting day.

[RoughShod]

Are you kidding Moll, fathers and daughters is better than marriage....father and daughters are real family....innocent and sweet

My daughters have often made me re evaluate myself according to their presciousness, and make me bite a bone in frustration when what I see them doing is wrong, yet they seem always to settle my heart at ease by their responsible state of mind.

If you think I have been bad here, I have been worse so with them. Yet they have been forgiving to me, and understanding what I expect of them. It has not been an easy ride bringing those 2 daughters of mine up, but I am proud of them

[moll]

RoughShod wrote: Are you kidding Moll, fathers and daughters is better than marriage....father and daughters are real family....innocent and sweet

My daughters have often made me re evaluate myself according to their presciousness, and make me bite a bone in frustration when what I see them doing is wrong, yet they seem always to settle my heart at ease by their responsible state of mind.

If you think I have been bad here, I have been worse so with them. Yet they have been forgiving to me, and understanding what I expect of them. It has not been an easy ride bringing those 2 daughters of mine up, but I am proud of them

Well then, Roughshod...........that's not just a credit to them, it's a credit to you.

I know father/daughter relationships can so often go wrong, especially when fathers just CAN'T take it on board that their daughters are adults and no longer those sweet little innocents, that must be quite a hard bridge to cross.......but I think if you don't, you lose them and there's nothing sadder than a grown woman who still acts like an 8 year old around her father.

I actually wondered whether to join my husband and daughter today, or whether I should just let them have their little 'bonding' session without me, I know she needs me in a different way from the way she needs her daddy, it's not like I feel left out or anything..........but I went anyway 8)

But I acknowledge that fathers and daughters have a special relationship, good or bad..........you've only got one father.

[RoughShod]

Moll, their intergration into society is more dependant upon their mother than their father. Fortunately we came to an agreement on our divorce that we as mother and father would work together as though still married to bring them up to realize that both father and mother worked together in theit best interest.

As my eldest daughter mentioned to me today, They could never use us seperately to be allowed to do something...because either I or my exwife would phone each other to determine what should be allowed. They were still in the control of both of us(we controlled them basically). I have to say I have huge respect to my ex wife for allowing that to happen....though it quite likely makes me look like quite a c**t that the marriage did not succesfully happen