Father's Day

Well, I called my dad too late in the day to catch him. :( Sorry, dad. I was thinking about you!

The morning started out pretty lazy, with Man giving himself a haircut while I got breakfast going. We had pancakes, bacon, grapes, oranges, eggs, and orange juice. The kids love these little clementine oranges we got from Costco. They can peel them themselves and they're sweet enough that even our littlest (who shouldn't be eating them) loves them, too.

We informed Tag that he was shaggy enough that he absolutely must have a trim on the sides and back, he could decide what he wanted done to the top. He said he wanted ALL of his hair gone. ALL?? Yes, ALL. So, here's an after picture:



Everyone at church was just shocked at my shorn men, but the men didn't care. Tag actually loves the excuse to wear a hat outside all the time.

When we came home, Man started doing dishes and cleaning up. I asked him why he was doing that on Father's Day and he replied "let's think about what happened on Mother's Day. You cooked and cleaned all day long and what did I do?" I told him that if it would assuage his conscience that he could do whatever he wanted, but I didn't feel that he necessarily "ought" to help out.

Together, we got everything cleaned just in time to make his dinner: bacon wrapped fillet mignon (!!), mashed potatoes, peas and mushrooms, and home made California rolls. I'm still learning how to perfectly prepare the vegetables so that the rolls are more structurally sound but for the most part they turned out pretty good. Princess requested a roll with no avocado or cucumber, and we ran out of crab, so she got a roll with just carrots and rice. She picked the carrot out and left the rest. (angry) No more custom rolls for that one. Pebbles actually ate some sushi and a bunch of the rest of her dinner so she was the only child to enjoy Man's Father's Day ice cream.

After that we put the kids in bed and watched Fantastic Four together. That was such a clunker of a movie. I mean, it was fun like a super hero movie is fun (cool powers!! beautiful people!! cool super villain!! oooo, so that's how they got their powers!!) but by and large it was a real disappointment. They explained and introduced and elaborated, then they took care of the bad guy -- quick, roll the credits! Wha-wha-what? Oh, um... that was like, an oddly boring 2 hours despite the explosions, powers, beautiful people, relationship tension, elaboration, and wow, some credits.

So happy Father's Day! Hope you didn't watch Fantastic Four, ate well, and heard from your kids. :)