Father's Day

[ItsFineReally]

How are you or your children celebrating Father's Day this year?

We're not.
Neither of our children are at home. One is 3 hours away and not coming home, one is in the USA. They've both sent cards snd gifts.
My dad is dead, dh's dad is 5 hours away and thinks fathers day is nonsense.

We have a normal Sunday ahead of is.

By sending my daughter, 10 yrs, to XH for an extra overnight stay, at her request, so she could give him his gift and spend time with him. She made him a card, I purchased the gift online for her and split the cost 50/50. She spent £6 of her own plentiful pocket money. If she’d been able to get it locally I would have taken her. I also gave her a little help baking him a cake, but insisted we make one for home at the same time.

For Mother’s Day, he did nothing. She asked me to take her shopping for me, which I did, she made me a card and little recipe book and we had an easy, but nice dinner at home with a shop bought tiramisu. I got to choose the film for a film night.

We don’t really! We said happy fathers to him, he took himself off golfing like every weekend and our DS has had his mate overnight and now they’re going to the fayre!

DCs have given DH his gifts and cards, now bacon rolls and pastries then a stroll along the beach with the DDogs. Late afternoon Pub Lunch then DH will meet some friends for their Hobby and I’ll put the DCs to bed.

DH and his family never celebrated it whilst growing up. So we had a child free night and I'll be collecting the kids shortly. DS made a card in pre school which he's already shown to DH as he couldn't get his head around to waiting for Sunday. Probably go for a walk later but DH isn't bothered about doing anything different. In all fairness all I ask for on Mothers day is a peaceful cup of tea in bed and a homemade card. It's just not something we really do in this household.

I regards to my own dad I saw him last weekend and gave him his card. No idea what he is doing this weekend.

DS8 gets very excited about father's and mothers day, he's very considerate. He picked out a selection of gifts including DHs favourite snacks, wine and a couple of novelty items from the supermarket last week.

DH and I also agree to have a budget of £100 for each other to choose an item that we'd like on MD & FD. We don't do valentine's or anniversary gifts so we like to make the effort on MD & FD. This year it comprised a pair of Adidas sliders for our upcoming holiday and a golf top.

DS has done the gift giving and we're going out for a nice lunch just the three of us.

Unfortunately, both my DF and DSD are no longer with us, but we'll drop off a card and a gift to FIL on the way to the restaurant.