Father's Day gifts

"Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope."~Bill Cosby

I was suppose to give suggestions about different gifts for Father's Day on the Mom-tage site that I have the privilege to be a member.  I'm not sure these are very original, but they sure made great memories for us when we were raising our children.  I thought I'd share them with my blog friends and feel free to share some of your children's (any age) creative gifts for Father's Day! Here are my suggestions and thoughts:

Over the years, there was the famous "soap on a rope"! Then the creative sides "kicked in" and there were homemade frames with a picture of each of the children, as well as cross-stitch bookmarks (I LOVE DAD), or even "homemade coupons" such as "I will take out the trash without being asked!", or I'll make my bed and place my laundry in the basket rather than beside the basket." You get the idea!



When we had our children, we decided to make a "date time" with each of the children on a one-to-one time together, this is something that we still do and have incorporated our son-in-law as well. We don't do it near as often as we all would like.

I shared that to share the next Father's day gift: Now that they are adult children, they sometimes will place a picture of what they want to do on their one-on-one time with their dad and it is now "their treat" to him! It can be something as simple as a walk in the park, or shooting basketball together or hitting a bucket of golf balls, to dinner and movie, the list is endless! Just being together and listening and sharing.

It is a tradition that will seem to carry-on in our family. We plan to continue the tradition with our grandchildren. Our 1st grandchild that is coming in October will hopefully love the time with Mimi and Grumps!

~Tina