Cherish Memories

I would like to dedicate my life story entitled “Cherish Memories” to both of my loving parents whose names are William Anthony McCarthy, and Joan Mary McCarthy. My father William Anthony McCarthy who had died in the year of 1988 from a massive hearth attack my loving father until today still remains in my loving heart, and thoughts of him as my dearest, devoted father. My mother Joan Mary McCarthy who I am happy to say is still among the living, and is living a healthy, and active life keeping busy. Her activities includes being active in the Spruce Creek Club House where my mother lives, volunteers at Munroe Regional Hospital a few days a month, also volunteers in Police Watch four days a month guarding the area neighborhood from crime, or suspicious happenings around the all areas in general. All that my mother does makes me feel very proud of her (as well as my deceased father who also had accomplished a lot in his life journey). Both of my parents mean the world to me (and my sister Justine), and I was happy to had been raised under their guidance, and love, because as parents as they were, a child could not had asked for any better parents with such superb qualities, which they had taught us as their daughters. I hope someday we shall all meet again in heaver as we all go one y one, to our holy grounds up in heaven with our Lord. My parents whom to me are my devoted, loving parents, they are the best parents any child could ever ask for. I always felt their love, devotion, concern for me as I grew up to adulthood. Even now that I am a fully grown, mature adult that I am, both my parents never had changed as being parents. They were always guiding me in the proper direction in life. I always felt their reassurance for me, when I myself did not have enough confidence in my own abilities, or as a person that I am. My loving parents would always comfort, and nurtured me whenever I had an emotional crisis in my life, they were always standing beside me, with arms wrapped around me. My parents to me were not only excellent parent's but I place them both on the highest pedestal there is in life for giving of themselves 100% to me as loving parents that they were. I firmly believe it is not until a person is full grown into adulthood is when a person such as myself, think back on the years growing up from infancy, and remembering just how much our parents really done for us. I definitely considered myself blessed, and so lucky to have devoted parents like I have in life (even though my father passed away, I feel his strong spiritual presence with me at all times). And if I had to pick today what parents I would like in my lifetime, I would still pick out my own two dearest, and most loving parents. From my observing eyes of my two loving parents, through out my growing up years, I've seen them endured many of hardships in life, they were both extreme hard workers in life. My parents worked hard together as a team to able achieve what they wanted out of life. They wanted their children which was my older sister Justine, and I to have a better life compared to what they had while they were growing up. Through my parents hard, and devoted efforts they were both rewarded with beautiful homes (we were a traveling family), new cars, family swimming pools, not to mention all our family pets we had since I was a young child. You name it we had pets such as parakeets, ducks, fishes, horses, rabbits, lizards, turtles, cats, and dogs, we had them all it seemed. As a family we all had our good times, and bad times, but the good times we shared as a loving family out numbered the bad times. I truly love my parents very deeply, they made me the person that I am today. I see myself as a person with good inner qualities, and that of strong character. I treat those the way I would like to be treated in life. Most of all I have great empathy for people in general. I respect the elderly, and see myself as a elder one day. I greatly miss my father, even today. I wished many times that he was still alive to share each other lives together. Both my parents to me were my rock in life. I always felt secure knowing that they were always there for me, through thick and thin as one might say. To know, I always can go to them if I had a personal problem that I could not solve myself, or a worry of some kind, or if I just needed their help, guidance, and loving advice. I could always count on my parents which to me is the biggest gift a parent can give to their children. I truly feel to love a child (also a parent) unconditionally is the biggest gift a child and a parent can give to one another in life. And again I say, the type of parents I had as parents only comes once in a blue moon, and this is why I feel so very fortunate that God did blessed me with these two individuals in my lifetime that I call my parents. In the year of 1988 when my loving father passed away, my mother and I bonded even more closer together throughout our remaining years together. My father's death in fact brought all our family members even closer together, as a tightly knitted family. Yes, family is what matters in a life, this to me is the real purpose in life, to be loved, and to share one's love with another family member. For without being loved, we would not be able to survive emotionally without having our inner feelings nurtured and caressed. We all need to be showered with loving embraces, with warmest hugs, and kisses from our family members. For our love for one another makes us all feel that much stronger inside of us in the emotional sense. So this is why I am dedicating, and honoring my book to my dearest parents who to me shall always be in my eyes cream of the crop as parents. I truly feel that children, and grow up children that are adults, should observe their parents, and listen to them, because good parents make very excellent role models for their children.