'Happy' Father's Day

Yesterday was Father's Day & a main goal of the day should be to do things that make the Dad in your life happy. I am not sure that we completely succeeded at reaching that goal for Brad. Two things that Brad hates most are: (1) planning too much in a day & rushing around & (2) eating outside. Yesterday was a busy day with Jason's baptism, having the grandparents back for brunch, & going to Robb & Michele's for dinner. On their own they do not sound like terribly complicated events that involve a lot of rushing, but when you are trying to coordinate two kids schedules into it- it often becomes a completely different experience.

First off, Jason started the day off for us with a wake-up call at 5:15am. Which in retrospect actually turned out to be a good thing because he actually had a short nap before church. He did very well during the service & didn't freak out when Pastor George took him. The water on his head turned out to be a good thing because it distracted him from the fact that a stranger was holding him & he then was squirming to find out where the water came from- in hopes that he could have a play. I think Jason would have been in support in a full immersion baptism.

Dale, my mother-in-law, works nights on the weekends and essentially went home to change her clothes & came straight to the church. It's lucky the service was over at 10am because she was starting to sway during the last prayer- I could have had her sleeping on my shoulder if it had been any later. After church we had a brunch & since the oven had been on while we were out I figured it would be cooler to eat outside- boy was I wrong. So, not only did we make Brad eat outside on Father's Day- it was VERY hot!


We were supposed to host the supper, but due to bbq issues we moved the festivities to Robb & Michele's. Although this meant we had to get ready to leave the house with the kids, we did not have as much clean-up afterwards- so that should have taken away some of the "busy-ness". I am not sure that Brad felt that way though.


So at the end of the day, we were both very tired due to our VERY early start & were looking forward to a good night's sleep. It seems that Father's Day was destined to end as poorly as it started. At 2am Brad & I are awoken (thankfully not the kids though) by an alarm. We at first thought it was the smoke detector, but then learned that it was the Carbon Monoxide detector. At 2am in the morning I couldn't even think what you were supposed to do when there is Carbon Monoxide in the air. First we went into the kids rooms to be sure they were alright & thankfully they were still sleeping peacefully. We reset the detector & plugged it back in to see what happened & 20 minutes later it went off again. Since we really don't have anything in the house that would emit Carbon Monoxide we figured that it had to be something faulty with the detector, but you don't want to take chances. So, Brad took it outside & plugged it in out there to see what happened. After about 10 minutes it went off again, so we could at least be confident that there wasn't anything in the house it was just the detector.

By this time it is about 3am & we head back to bed. After a bit I could get back to sleep, but I am not too sure that Brad slept too much after that. Hopefully tonight will be much more peaceful for him (& me too, of course).