I think our pastor's wife would be rather horrified if asked to give a sermon. And three of the four elders would have heart attacks. She'd give a sensible one, though! Six kids, homeschools 'em and they're turning out well... Dad keeps saying we should have an arranged marriage between their eldest girl and our second boy.
Moms are important. Kids know that right away. Sometimes it takes longer to figure out how important the dad is. And the parents who have to do both jobs, well, they have more than my respect.
Yep, Dads are very important, us good ones anyway. ;-)
My Dad wasn't a bad father. But he was absent from a lot of my growing up because of his alcoholism. I mean, he was in the home, but never really there.
I made a commitment a long time ago to try to do better than that for my boys. I screw a lot of stuff up but they ain't gettin' rid of me.
Sometimes Dads are jerks tho. And sometimes they just go away.
Right now Ruthy's girls don't realize how special their mom is to be taking on both roles. One day they will.