Today marks your 60th birthday. I know we can't be there with you today but I wanted to let you know my thoughts from far away. Thankyou for giving me the life of my dreams and for giving up so much in yours, so that I can have all this happiness in mine. Thankyou for making me laugh every day of my life. Gosh, how you make me laugh, even when the heaviness of life is weighing on you inside, you make it your business to bring a smile to my face. I secretly love your lame jokes and they show the goodness in you and there's so much good. In fact there's so much great, you are a great man, the greatest man and you've shown me not to be loved by any man less than you love me. Thankyou for loving Jonno and making him part of our family. Thankyou for passing on your stubbornness, memory for completely useless information and soapbox. These qualities have so far stood me in good stead and at times I shock myself at how much like you I actually am. Thankyou for loving my mother and brother the way you do and showing me that above all, family comes first. Always, family comes first. Thankyou for the wonderful childhood you gave me and the memories I have of a totally silly, loving and devoted Daddy. I was never embarrassed by you (except maybe that one time you told me you weren't driving through the drive-thru and I was going to have to walk through if I wanted Maccas) and I was never afraid to hold your hand. I loved to hold your hand and sit on your shoulders. From those places I felt secure and comforted. Thankyou for your patience and for always getting up in the middle of the night to check outside for scary things I may have seen at my window. Thankyou for being my greatest teacher in life by being the greatest example of how to be humble, hard working, loyal, genuine, patient, honest, generous and warm hearted. Thankyou for loving my boys. I know you love them like you love me and they bring so much joy to your life. Thankyou for letting us go and pretending to be happy for me. I know it breaks your heart that we're so far away and you can't watch those boys grow. It breaks mine too but I must follow a life that makes me happy, so thankyou for hiding your pain and always cracking jokes about the Canadian weather. On this milestone I want to tell you how much I love you, I miss you and I hope like hell that you have some of Uncle Jack's genes in there and you live another number of years close to 60.
Your ever loving daughter,
Nardie Gone Pie. X
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