To all you pappy's out there...
It occurs to me that I may be the only male amongst you geezers here with children still young enough to live at home, (except for Strop, and I don't know if they do "Father's Day" down un'er....)
But I'm gonna tell you what I got anyway....
A new set of Redskins gear....
(My old cap, tee shirt, sweat shirt, sweat pants and shorts were getting a little frayed....well, they are 15 years old....)
A bottle of cologne...(is somebody trying to tell me something?)
A box set of all the episodes of A Bit Of Frye and Laurie (hysterical stuff...another addition to my collection of Brit Coms from the 70's 80's and 90's)
And best of all...
A home made "pop up" card that Tati designed, (When you open it, a drawing of our house "pops up" with pictures of each of us looking out the windows)...
She signed it and also had her brother scribble on the card....
She told me, "I was going put the crayon in his hand and move it around to write his name, but I figured you would figure out that was fake"
I told her that was fine; I love it just the way it is....~sniff~
Tonight we're going out to Alfred's my favorite local steak house....
Except for the no smoking thing, walking into that restaurant is like stepping back in time into a restaurant out of a Mad Men episode....
I love that old fashioned steak house ambiance...
Here's a link:
http://www.alfredssteakhouse.com/
(It reminds me of a restaurant my parent's used to take me to in DC when I was little named Costins)
Happy Father's Day!
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You got to catch up with the threads you missed
Okay... There's all kinds of things wrong with what you just said.
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CP, could I get a little more specific information please? 
The threads are many, and I am few....
The threads are many, and I am few....
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Quit pretending you have a life!
Okay... There's all kinds of things wrong with what you just said.
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Sean has a kid (Disney thread) I have one on the way (you got 20 years on me old man) (It's not a secret anymore)
And there my be one I'm forgetting
And there my be one I'm forgetting
Okay... There's all kinds of things wrong with what you just said.
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Miles has two sets of country critters!
Happy Day to Dads!
Happy Day to Dads!
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In Australia, Fathers' Day is the first Sunday of September. UK Father's Day is the 3rd Sunday of June..
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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Well that would be today then....UK Father's Day is the 3rd Sunday of June..
So a Happy Father's Day to you, and to Sean, (and to anyone else I may have omitted with my snarky intro...)...
Since you chaps are from the UK but live in Australia, that makes you entitled to two Father's Days....(small enough compensation...
)When Tati was six or seven, she asked me why there was a "Father's Day" and a "Mother's Day" but no "Kid's Day"....
I gave her the same answer my mother gave me when I asked her the very same question when I was a kid....
Because EVERY DAY is "Kid's Day"....
Oh my....January
Well, that should certainly make this coming Christmas Season a joyous time to be around the missus....
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Thank you LJ.
Yes my lad is still at home. I won't kick him out until he turns 4.
Yes my lad is still at home. I won't kick him out until he turns 4.
Why is it that when Miley Cyrus gets naked and licks a hammer it's 'art' and 'edgy' but when I do it I'm 'drunk' and 'banned from the hardware store'?
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Well don't be too harsh Sean....Yes my lad is still at home. I won't kick him out until he turns 4
I say let him stay till he's six so long as he get's a job...
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Dear ol' Dad's day.
I don't celebrate it any more since mine has passed on.
The Hatch always celebrates Father's Day with her dad, but she never goes and buys him presents. (If she can afford something for him, she buys it, if she can't afford something for him, she makes it.)
Most years the hatch's dad gets some craft product that the HAtch has made, together with either her preparing breakfast, lunch or dinner for him.
It is nice and cheap that way.
I don't celebrate it any more since mine has passed on.
The Hatch always celebrates Father's Day with her dad, but she never goes and buys him presents. (If she can afford something for him, she buys it, if she can't afford something for him, she makes it.)
Most years the hatch's dad gets some craft product that the HAtch has made, together with either her preparing breakfast, lunch or dinner for him.
It is nice and cheap that way.
Bah!
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Yes, dear old dad.......
My two daughters are tops!
Delicious Asian cuisine at older daughters and younger daughter brought gifts.
My two daughters are tops!
Delicious Asian cuisine at older daughters and younger daughter brought gifts.
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
yrs,
rubato
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I certainly understand that sentiment....Dear ol' Dad's day.
I don't celebrate it any more since mine has passed on.
But as I explained to my sister when she insisted we had become "orphans" after our parents died back-to-back in 1996 and 1997...(We were not "orphans"...we were the grown children of adults who had passed away...it was the natural order of things...but I have to say it was difficult to come to grips with the idea of being the "eldest" member of the family..that was always our father's role; I'll never be able to fill it properly....)
But my sister has a beautiful daughter, (my niece) and I have two beautiful children...(her niece and nephew)
It's time to go forward, not back...if our parents were here, that's what they'd want us to do.
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I got short-changed in the father department, so Father's Day has not been a very special occasion for me for many years now.
However, yesterday I spent most of Father's Day with my new beau and his two lovely young children. They are 3 (girl) & 6 (boy), and together we attended a showing of Toy Story 3 (great fun!) and then got food from a local drive-in, ate at the park and played on the jungle gym together. This was followed up by some SpongeBob Squarepants back at the ranch, and shared bedtime storytelling.
Both kids made very nice homemade cards for their dad.
Best Father's Day I have enjoyed in a long time, spent with one of the best fathers I've had the pleasure of knowing.
Belated well wishes to all you Plan B dads!
However, yesterday I spent most of Father's Day with my new beau and his two lovely young children. They are 3 (girl) & 6 (boy), and together we attended a showing of Toy Story 3 (great fun!) and then got food from a local drive-in, ate at the park and played on the jungle gym together. This was followed up by some SpongeBob Squarepants back at the ranch, and shared bedtime storytelling.
Both kids made very nice homemade cards for their dad.
Best Father's Day I have enjoyed in a long time, spent with one of the best fathers I've had the pleasure of knowing.
Belated well wishes to all you Plan B dads!
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
~ Carl Sagan
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Hen--i agree with Jim, this is the first Father's Day I've had without my dad (who died in February) and wile it caused me to reminisce a bit, it also caused me to treasure thetime I have with my girls. In some ways it made this Father's Day even more special. Life goes on, but we never forget, and we are richer for the experiences we have.
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bigskygal wrote:
However, yesterday I spent most of Father's Day with my new beau
This was followed up by some SpongeBob Squarepants back at the ranch,
That's a new name for it!
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”