Kappell Family Blog

Being I parent carries a lot of responsibilities. As a parent we have made a choice to put our children before ourselves. To make sure that we do our best to instill in them good values to enable them to make good decisions in their life’s as young adults and as a grown adult. When do see if all our efforts have failed or succeeded in our children? Will our children see our hard efforts to make their life better through the instructions we have laid before them? Will all that we have given be for nothing? These and a great deal of other question plague my thoughts late in to many sleepless nights.

But there is also the area of learning how and when to draw then line of when to be their father or their friend. This is a hard feat to accomplish the older they get. You want to be their friend and their buddy. On the other hand you need them to take you serious, and understand certain issues need to be taken seriously. I love my kids want them to know no matter what I will always be there for them, to try and guide them in their times of need. And hope that then know they can come to me with anything and I will understand.

I love my family and I especially love all my children each in there own special way. Nonetheless I love them with out reservation and nothing they say or do will ever change the way I love and care for them. All I want for my children is to have the best in life so my struggles and hardship that I have lived and seen are left with me and not passed on to my children. So there children’s life can be even more glorious then theirs.

To my kids who I love with all my heart I know I am hard on you at times and you cannot see or understand exactly why. You may not see why that is, but I tell you it is for your benefit and I hope you believe me when I say that. I try to explain the reason why the best I can. I hope one day you can look back and say, I now see what it was that you were trying to get me to see and understand. I know in life you see or hear things that you don’t quite understand, but are reviled to you at in time in life. Life is a mystery and out father intended it to be that way. Some things are seen clearly and yet others are seen through abstraction, left up to us to piece together what we are to do. However the path is always there!