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Dad,
In the spirit of celebrating your 61st birthday, CP and I spent a lot of time this past weekend reminiscing about you and our favorite memories of time spent with you. Here's a rundown of 61 of our top favorites....
Maria from childhood:
1) Feeding peanuts to our squirrel friends Byron and Penelope (which took me years to realize were just random squirrels)
2) You pretending (I think?!) to eat bugs
3) Orioles games- especially sharing Bambino's ribs
4) Getting to go to work with you and pretending to be your secretary
5) The San Gennaro festival in NYC
6) Endless summers at Rehoboth
7) THUMB WAR
8) drop offs and pickups at Camp Friendship
9) Super Soakers
10) Basketball season with you coaching
11) The Grateful Dead concert
12) You trying to explain fractions to me with forks and spoons
13) Dave Barry columns
14) Mr. Ticklefinger
15) raft-tag at the pool
16) digging for sand crabs for hours and hours at the beach
17) Sunday morning blueberry pancakes and bacon
18) going to the Shakespeare theater
19) learning to drive in the parking lot at Longfellow
20) UVA football games
21) GW women's basketball games and team events
22) Blues Traveler on Halloween at the 9:30 Club
23) learning to make veal pasta with you
24) going to see Next to Normal
25) trying to figure out the subway in Paris
26) adventures at Roosevelt Island
27) Christmas Eve dinners at Vidalia
28) mini-golf
29) trips to the National Gallery
30) Carpooling with you when I interned at DOE
31) Yada, yada, yada
32) Five Guys
32) Sledding at Tuckahoe
34) Reading The Stinky Cheese Man
35) Helping me build my one stop shop cleaner for my fourth grade invention project
36) Our family single-handedly keeping Starbucks in business
37) McDonalds dinners after a late basketball practice
CP and Maria:
38) LIVE ACTION
39) Your patio lamp heater
40) "Guarding" the TV
41) The Giants-Redskins game at MetLife
42) Crosswords
43) The Onion articles you would send CP
44) Your Volvo
45) Christmastime in NYC
46) Taking CP on a man-date to celebrate his promotion
47) Rescuing you from The Italian Store in an epic snowstorm
48) Baskin-Robbin sundaes
49) Croissants on the beach in the morning
50) Your coq au vin
51) Bob and Edith's
52) Summer crab feasts
53) You going to CP's wiffleball games
54) Manhattans
55) New Year's Eve at the Newseum
56) E St movie theater
57) YEAH BABY
58) Your speech on our wedding day
59) Nats games
60) Your belly laugh
61) Being Nice. Working Hard.
25) trying to figure out the subway in Paris
26) adventures at Roosevelt Island
27) Christmas Eve dinners at Vidalia
28) mini-golf
29) trips to the National Gallery
30) Carpooling with you when I interned at DOE
31) Yada, yada, yada
32) Five Guys
32) Sledding at Tuckahoe
34) Reading The Stinky Cheese Man
35) Helping me build my one stop shop cleaner for my fourth grade invention project
36) Our family single-handedly keeping Starbucks in business
37) McDonalds dinners after a late basketball practice
CP and Maria:
38) LIVE ACTION
39) Your patio lamp heater
40) "Guarding" the TV
41) The Giants-Redskins game at MetLife
42) Crosswords
43) The Onion articles you would send CP
44) Your Volvo
45) Christmastime in NYC
46) Taking CP on a man-date to celebrate his promotion
47) Rescuing you from The Italian Store in an epic snowstorm
48) Baskin-Robbin sundaes
49) Croissants on the beach in the morning
50) Your coq au vin
51) Bob and Edith's
52) Summer crab feasts
53) You going to CP's wiffleball games
54) Manhattans
55) New Year's Eve at the Newseum
56) E St movie theater
57) YEAH BABY
58) Your speech on our wedding day
59) Nats games
60) Your belly laugh
61) Being Nice. Working Hard.
Your Dad's sweet words to me at your wedding, his gift of a stamp when I visited, steaks and fries at a French restaurant in DC, his generosity and the way he fully and completely embraced anyone that was important to you... just to name a few! Xoxo
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