Father’s Day – 6/15/08

Got to sleep in this morning, thanks to Father’s Day! Naturally last night was rough for both Susie and Layne, so I couldn’t amass as much sleep as I would hope, but I will gladly take what I can get. I woke up to the boys running into my room holding gift bags and screaming “Happy Father’s Day!” They are both very excited. Marshall so much so that he pulls my present out of the bag, before I can even open it. Layne, on the other hand, is very reluctant to let go of his gift bag. They each gave me a coffee mug which they helped paint, which is something I not-so-subtly hinted at recently. Sarah tells me later that her intention was for them to each paint 1 half of the mug, but she quickly realized that would not work out well, so I got two.

Marshall has also helped Sarah make my Father’s Day breakfast, and he is very excited about it. They made a honey-baked French toast, which is a new recipe Sarah found. It is funny the ingredients that Marshall fixates on. “There’s eggs!” “And honey!” “BUTTER!” Sounds like a great breakfast to me. And it indeed was very tasty. I got to enjoy a great breakfast, and drink coffee out of one of my new mugs. A great start to Father’s Day.

A few things dawn on me about today as well. For one thing, this is only my fourth Father’s Day, and I already have 3 kids. Yikes. 2005-1, 2006-1, 2007-2, 2008-3. I hope that trend stays halted for a few years now. Second, out of those 4 Father’s Days, this will probably be the first truly lazy, relaxing one. In 2005, I actually started the day in Florida at my parents, where I had gone to help out after my Dad had some surgery. I felt weird missing my first Father’s Day, but I felt at that time that helping out my Father was the more important thing. The next year was the weekend we moved into the house. We actually moved the Friday just before, which happened to be my birthday, but of course spent all weekend unpacking and making quick trips to the old house to get the left behind items. Last year was somewhat calmer, but was the day after my 30th birthday party, so we had lots of family in town and a fair amount of clean-up to do. So I am certainly looking forward to today, where we have nothing at all hectic planned.