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June 20th, 2011
We celebrated Father’s Day a little early in our house this year. Saturday was deemed Ant’s Daddy Day. I don’t really know why we celebrated early, except that we also celebrated Mother’s Day a day early. I think it may be a new tradition we’ve started for our family.
Saturday morning Ant woke up to his gift from me and the girls – an IOU for a Daddy Chair. (More on this in a post coming soon!) I gave him my card and soon Ella woke up and chatted at us from her big girl bed next door. She stumbled in, all bed-headed, and I told her to go grab the card she’d hidden in the very bottom drawer of her dresser. She ran to retrieve it, having half-successfully kept it a secret since Friday afternoon.
We dashed off to breakfast, did a little grocery shopping, then dropped Ella off at her Yaya and Papa’s house for a playdate. And the rest of us headed out to our favorite vintage store to search out the Daddy Chair. Well we found it, and fell in love with a mid-century sofa too. We may be bringing it home within the month. Eep!
I made lunch, mowed the front lawn (it was so hot my face turned into a blazing tomato. Now I remember another reason I hated P.E. in school…), jumped in the shower, and we were off to our Father’s Day picnic.
We went to Pane Bianco, the home of Ant’s most favorite sandwich. We spread out a blanket on the lawn and plopped our tired selves down to relax and enjoy our dinner. It was a great way to finish off our special day dedicated to Daddy. Here’s what our picnic looked like:
Yesterday we celebrated our own amazing dads-slash-papas. We churched and brunched with my parents in the morning and took a few family photos together in the afternoon. That evening we met up with Ant’s side of the family for a little pizza and play time for the kiddos.
What a lovely weekend of celebrating the men in our lives. I hope you had a wonderful one!
Sweetest wishes, Katy
