I didn’t have my dad in the picture at all when I was growing up, but my grandparents pretty much raised me while my mom was working. My grandfather taught me a lot growing up, and I do consider him my father figure. My favorite memory of my grandfather and I was when I was 8 years old, we built a chicken coop for my mom entirely by hand and he taught me a lot about building and the different tools. He even let me use a power saw to cut some wood. There’s so many memories of him just being him, but I appreciate that memory the most because it was the only one where it was just him and I