Dear Fellow Dads, Happy Father's Day!
Here at the Dads Center we congratulate you on your achievements the past year. The hard work you've done to support your family, the time you've spent with your wife or significant other, and the time you've spent with your kids all has been for the good.
Enjoy your day.
Time is running out. And while most efforts this week to find dad a good gift will most likely end in a tie, (pun intended) there are some things I'm asking for this year. Here they are: A nice dinner, a quiet relaxing day. At the present, I'm not in need of any material gifts. I've got the latest Apple gear I want (Steve Jobs may change that in about five hours) but I'm good at the moment. (Today is the day most likely when the new iPhone and a few other things get announced!) Tools? Well, yeah, but I just built a new shelf and workbench in the garage this weekend and was able to park the car inside last night for the first time since I started making picket fencing back in March. Clothes? Well, I've initiated a weight-loss program so anything you get me isn't going to fit in a few weeks. Magazines? I'm already getting two Mac magazines, National Geographic and The New Yorker. I call that pretty well-rounded.
And for the fact of the matter, next Sunday will largely be spent with our friends from Southwest who will be flying us back from Oakland after two days in Yosemite. So I guess, when you come down to it, even though this really is a trip for Kari's uplifting, I'm getting to go, too. As busy as the first three days of this week will be with work, the real joy will be Friday morning, Saturday morning and Sunday morning in the park. And without kids this time, I'm hoping just to go SLOW through it. Sit up at Glacier Point or Sentinel Dome and just sit, watching the hues of color bounce against that incredible face on Half Dome. Now that's a Father's Day gift you can't beat.
And then we get back and I'm off to Denver the following weekend and to Philly from there.
I noticed on the CNN Web site that iReporters are asking for ideas about potential Father's Day gifts for 2009.
Here are some ideas for the upcoming holiday:
1) Anything made by Apple/Mac. The new iPhone should be out by then.
2) Ties and shirts obviously are still fair game.
3) Garden and wood working tools
4) A nice trip with mom to Yosemite
5) A new pup
6) An iTunes giftcard for a ton of new downloads
7) Good reading materials for dads--books, magazines on Mac, Apple, Video editing, etc.
8) A new HD video camera for videotaping important family moments
9) Some new software for the Mac Book Pro
10) Just a good day with the family.
Dads, what's on your list?
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