Dad's Day

Stephanie and I are not good at traditions on holidays. We live close enough to family, and are busy enough with church stuff that most holidays are never exactly like the one last year. We feel a bit bad about that, but we don't feel bad about the flexibility that we have made to make sure that we see family and keep up with church at each holiday.

Saturday we went to three parties. Birthday with twin cousins, birthday for Associate Pastor's daughter, and graduation for one of our awesome youth. While on the road (from 9:00 a.m to 6:45 p.m.) Steph asked what I want for Father's Day and do I feel bad that we don't have a tradition.

Here is what I wanted. We have done it several times before and it is a good tradition that is simple for Father's day. We load up all the kids glasses with grape juice (ours too). Then we practice toasting each other. We make the kids say, "Here's to... and cheers."We have been doing this occasionally to teach the kids to say nice things to one another.

Lib is four and her first toast was, "Here's to dad. I love him." Three toasts all were exactly the same, "Here's to mom, she takes us to the swimming pool." Ben even went beyond the room with, "Here's to Grandpa Scheperle who gave us pumpkin plant seeds for the yard."

If you don't have a Dad's Day tradition do this one. It is super simple and teaches kids to think and say encouraging things. BTW! With little kids you need some tough glasses. They like to hear them clank together, but that can be fatal to a glass!