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Discovering that the plane ride itself is dull from a toddler’s perspective - but that the airport travellator rocks like there is no tomorrow!
A safari at the open range zoo is pretty cool. Not because of the exotic animals or seeing them up close, these are too be ignored, but because you get to […]
Well we appear to have survived Christmas largely unscathed this year - go our team.
Sure it was the usual mess of stress and tension in which no one is ever truly relaxed or actually enjoys the day - but there were no fights or near fatal stabbings at Christmas lunch so that is something to […]
Today was one of those momentous days that rolls around every year at about this time - Santa photo time!
Every year thousands of screaming toddlers and babies are dragged by their parents down to the local shopping centre and sat on some elderly stranger’s knee to be photographed. Today it was the turn of our […]
Well Sunday was Fathers day, or as I like to call it Sunday. I wasn’t expecting much, and I wasn’t disappointed. My wife tried to explain the new concept of Fathers Day to Little Miss and made sure that there was a lovely card (the Wiggles make Fathers Day cards now by the way). Also […]
Read Fathers day - or more aptly entitled ‘Sunday’ »Well Sunday was Fathers day, or as I like to call it Sunday. I wasn’t expecting much, and I wasn’t disappointed. My wife tried to explain the new concept of Fathers Day to Little Miss and made sure that there was a lovely card (the Wiggles make Fathers Day cards now by the way). Also there was a great hand made little box with a picture of Little Miss on it that she made at day care. Well she splashed some purple paint on it and one of the carers stuck her picture on the top. I am not sure what to do with it, but I do know it will take pride of place somewhere.
The best thing about the box apart from the obvious love it was completed with was the unsmiling photo of my daughter on the top. It was one taken at daycare, and it is the most surly contemptuous look that I genuinely think I will ever see cross her face this side of the teenage years.
The one thing though that was quite obvious was just how bored with the idea of Fathers Day Little Miss quickly became, once she realised that Fathers Day did not involve cake of any sort she really could not be bothered with the whole event at all.
Of course it was a different matter the week before when it was my birthday, that she was exceptionally excited about because it involved both cake and fire. Her obsession with candles and flames is admittedly a little disturbing - I just hope she isn’t listening to the leprechaun in her head telling her to set fire to things.
It did get me to thinking though about what the point of Fathers Day is, apart from keeping the bad tie industry up and running. It certainly isn’t for the kids, I don’t remember enjoying Fathers Day as a kid - the tremendous pressure of buying something nice with the money I managed to steal from my mothers purse was quite excruciating, I never did work out what to buy a man who has no hobbies. But I digress, I usually do, it’s part of my charm. Now back to the main story.
Fathers Day is also certainly not for the Fathers. I am a terrible actor, and I live in fear of the day that is coming years into the future when my lovely daughters present me with some horrendously vile gift which I then have to fuss over as if I need a bright yellow pair of budgie smugglers to complete my summer wardrobe (there’s one for the Americans to have fun Googling). There is little chance, I will be able to hide my disappointment, and then I will be able to see my daughters little hearts break when they realise, that I can’t stand their gift.
The other thing about Fathers Day is just how much it pales into insignificance when compared to Mothers Day. That is a day that the whole family makes and effort for, and I personally think it entails a whole lot more emotional commitment from everyone.
A fuss is made, and rightly so, there is a special breakfast, a lunch out somewhere, gifts and cards, glorious words of love and devotion and if Hubby is smart, he too has obtained Wife a special something to commemorate her fine efforts in raising their progeny.
I did however got a beautiful purple box.
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