Okay, ladies, I’ll keep this short and sweet.
How did you celebrate Mother’s Day, and what do you have planned for Father’s Day?
There is a tremendous inequality in the way we approach these two holidays, and the guys get the short shrift. I mean, the kiddos are still in school on Mom’s day, and they bring home lots of adorable homemade gifts for us—you know, the ones that make us all go sniffle snuffle, even those of us (like me) who were hardened against kids’ crafts. But by Dad’s day, the kids are out of school and we’re trying to adjust to occupying the same space again without a) boredom, or b) World War III.
I think we women tend to get very self-absorbed in the sacrifices we make, the dreams we give up or the conflict between our work and our parenthood. The men have these same struggles, but because they don’t talk about it so much, we tend to forget.
Today, I set forth a challenge, for myself as well as for all of you. Let’s make this Father’s Day special for our husbands. For the men who are our partners, our best friends, our voice of reason and our sounding boards.
What will you do to make his day special?
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Each year the kids and I make a special “Father’s Day” cake. This year it will be brownies designed to look like grills with food grilling.
Every year (for Mother’s day and Father’s day)… we hand our spouse a Handbook which includes menu’s, activities (including some free time), and rules for their DAY OFF. It has been a ton of fun and it’s interesting to see how the years have changed… from when the rules included no changing dirty diapers, filling sippy cups, ect (that’s Dad’s duties only on Mother’s day). To now ~ I get quiet time to read, write, go shopping, ect… We love our Days’ OFF.
I’ll be putting my handbook together for him shortly… to include his favourite meals, golfing time, nap time on the sofa, ect.
I love the handbook. How long a handbook is this, and do you get his input in writing it? 🙂
This is so true. Since my husband is working on Father’s Day, I may need to plan a surprise while he is off.
I got t-shirts for me (“My husband rocks”) and the kids (“daddy rocks”) that we will wear on Father’s Day. Sophie and I cheated and wore them early when we went to help him at cub scout day camp last week (he’s the director).
Well….this is especially challenging for me this year-as my hubby is out of the country until next Thursday! Maybe we can surprise him when we pick him up from the airport later that week somehow. Any good ideas?
on behalf of my husband, thank you 🙂 i love your heart.