{"id":12567,"date":"2020-05-04T20:39:16","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T02:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=12567"},"modified":"2020-05-04T20:42:11","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T02:42:11","slug":"the-greatest-gift-a-father-can-give-his-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/the-greatest-gift-a-father-can-give-his-daughter\/","title":{"rendered":"The Greatest Gift A Father Can Give His Daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The most influential man in my life turned 82 years old over\nthe weekend. That man is my Father, Gerald Rees.  He is my rock, my exemplar, my advisor, my\nhero, and my friend. He taught me that that I am capable of doing anything I set\nmy mind to if I am willing to work hard at it. He is always willing to give me\nhonest feedback on what I can be doing to become my best self while encouraging\nme and building me up to know he believes in me with all his heart. My father\nset the standard for the type of man I should marry and without his influence I\nwouldn\u2019t be the woman I am today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Knowing I wouldn\u2019t get to spend his birthday with him due to\nthe Coronavirus risk it made it all the more important for me to find the\nperfect birthday card to give him \u2013 one that would express exactly the way I feel\nabout him. I can\u2019t count the number of cards I read before I found the perfect\none. It read:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  Front of card: \u201cAt what\nage does a daughter stop needing her Dad? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inside the card:  \u201cI\u2019ll\nlet you know when I get there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was perfect!  It\nexpressed exactly how I feel because I do still need my Dad\u2026now and\nalways!  Every daughter needs her Dad because\na Father\u2019s love gives her the foundation she needs to know she is capable of\naccomplishing anything.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am so grateful my father is still alive and around to be my rock and I pray he continues to be for many more years to come. I am also grateful that my Father gave me the gift of making sure that I know that he is not the only father who loves me and is always going to be there for me \u2013 my father has always let me know that I also have a Heavenly Father who is always here for me too and who loves me unconditionally. What greater gift can a father give his daughter than to help her understand she has two fathers who love her?! Thanks for that Dad!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wish I could have given my Dad a giant hug for his birthday, but at least I was able to take him his favorite Aggie Ice Cream and sing to him from his front porch as I was able to see his smiling face through his glass front door\u2026.I love that smile! And I love you Dad! HAPPY 82nd BIRTHDAY!!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Amy Rees Anderson with her Father
Gerald Rees on his 82nd birthday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

~Amy Rees Anderson (author of the book \u201cWhat Awesome Looks Like: How To Excel in Business & Life<\/a>\u201d ) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The most influential man in my life turned 82 years old over the weekend. That man is my Father, Gerald Rees.  He is my rock, my exemplar, my advisor, my hero, and my friend. He taught me that that I am capable of doing anything I set my mind to if I am willing to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23498,23502,23496,6364,20190,395,419,224,163,1792,23499,3089,276,34,4318,235,23495,519,23497,23501,23503,23500,1388,3358,19932],"class_list":["post-12567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-a-daughter-always-needs-her-dad","tag-a-father-sets-the-standard","tag-a-fathers-love","tag-advisor","tag-aggie-ice-cream","tag-amy-rees-anderson","tag-birthday","tag-confidence","tag-courage","tag-encouragement","tag-foundation-of-love","tag-gerald-rees","tag-heavenly-father","tag-integrity","tag-jerry-rees","tag-mentor","tag-my-father-on-his-82nd-birthday","tag-self-esteem","tag-the-greatest-gift-a-father-can-give-his-daughter","tag-the-kind-of-man-you-should-marry","tag-the-most-influential-man-in-my-life","tag-the-woman-i-am-today","tag-unconditional-love","tag-usu","tag-what-awesome-looks-like"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12567"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12573,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12567\/revisions\/12573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}