Father’s Day … well, “holiday” is a pretty wonderful thing around here, because it means the family gets donuts in the morning and eat at a restaurant later. My son insists that my birthday and fathers day are holidays where the dad gets to play xbox with their kids, so I guess we’ll do that too There is a baseball card show that day which I may treat myself to a box of cards for fun, possibly take my son and dad to as well as watch some mma at night. Yup, sounds like a pretty much perfect day!
Yeah, she didn’t actually represent the church but she had the idea whilst listening to a sermon and was supported in her quest by the church MOSTLY THROUGH THE ymca and it was the church that drove it become a recognised celebration. That’s enough for me.
Plus, versions vary anyway and in most of them the church played it’s part.
The idea of Father’s Day was conceived slightly more than a century ago by Sonora Dodd of Spokane, Wash., while she listened to a Mother’s Day sermon in 1909. Dodd wanted a special day to honor her father, William Smart, a widowed Civil War veteran who was left to raise his six children on a farm. A day in June was chosen for the first Father’s Day celebration - 100 years ago, June 19, 1910, proclaimed by Spokane’s mayor because it was the month of Smart’s birth. The first presidential proclamation honoring fathers was issued in 1966 when President Lyndon Johnson designated the third Sunday in June as Father’s Day. Father’s Day has been celebrated annually since 1972 when President Richard Nixon signed the public law that made it permanent.
My dad’s somewhere off the coast of Finland so there aint much I can do and my kids are beating the snot out of each other upstairs and I think I will tidy the garage…
So in conclusion, take a bit of Rudy, add a dash of Rich’s #2 and that’ll be my day
My kids love it so I indulge them but it means nothing to me for two reasons:
It was invented by the christian church but on this forum I’m not allowed to say why I have a problem with that so I’ll respect that rule.
It’s been commercialised and I’m not a fan of that either.
I had a lovely breakfast on my own with the kids since my wife is away and now they’re trying to kill each other over whose go it is on the playstation. Life goes on…
There is a baseball card show that day which I may treat myself to a box of cards for fun, possibly take my son and dad to as well as watch some mma at night. Yup, sounds like a pretty much perfect day!
But I think it’s a good think like Mother’s day…If there is a mother must be a father too 