Growing up in small-town Saskatchewan, one of my earliest memories was driving down gravel roads in my dad’s old Ford truck. He had an acreage on the edge of the Qu’Appelle valley and there were times we’d go driving on roads that were little more than tracks in the grass. On the top of the valley, Dad used to occasionally let me, the oldest child, sit and steer the truck across his property. I started out sitting in his lap and then, as I got older, was eventually allowed to drive on the acreage roads myself, with Dad beside me keeping a watchful eye on me!
For many children in Saskatchewan, those times spent out with our fathers were our first driving lessons, often started a decade before we would be eligible to actually take driving lessons and get that coveted Learner’s License. Any child whose parents owned a farm or acreage had so much open private property that it just made sense to take advantage of it. And those bonding moments with my dad driving around in that old Ford truck remain some of my favourite memories of time spent with him to this day.
Now Father’s Day is just days away and I can’t help but find myself reminiscing about those times spent driving with my dad. And Ford Canada knows that I’m not the only one! That’s why the company has put together a fabulous Father’s Day giveaway. One lucky Mommy Kat and Kids reader is going to win a Ford Genuine Parts Bar Stool with Back Rest, a Ford ball cap and a Ford Genuine Parts Pint Glass Set containing a 5 qt. Metal Bucket, four Pint Glasses, 12 Coasters and a Bar Towel, a total value of $250! To enter to win, just leave a blog comment about a favourite memory of spending time with your dad!
This Father’s Day, I’ll be heading out to my dad’s acreage with my brother and sister and all our kids to surprise our dad and enjoy a little time together. We’ll enjoy the warm Saskatchewan spring, cook up some burgers on the barbeque and let the kids run around and spend time with their grandpa. And chances are pretty good that Zackary and his cousin Anna, at eight and seven, will get the chance to drive with Grandpa in the truck just like we all did as kids. It’s one of those traditions that I hope will continue for generations to come, because I know it’s one that creates memories that last forever!
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Going rabbit hunting with my dad when we were younger,,loved going on ski-doo in the woods and checking the slips for rabbits :)
I loved when I caddied for my dad: Just the two of us together.
We had a fight and I was in high school. Stayed at a girlfriends house and went to the Senior Prom. My Dad came dressed up in a tux and asked to dance with me, he was a handsome man and only in his 30’s at that time and all the girls were so jealous. Said he was sorry and would I please come back home. Never forget that as its the first and last time he ever apologized to me!
As a child, I used to love helping my Father out at the dairy farm. :)
As a child, I used to love helping my Father out at the dairy farm.
Camping with him :-)
We would spend the day on the boat fishing loved it
Walking around Stanley Park on a warm late afternoon. Sometimes, my father would purchase a Revello ice cream bar for my little brother and myself. (Yes, sometimes it melted before I finished it:))
No father in my life so no memories to be had.
I remember him teaching me to swim as a child.