After doing a Mother's day spread for the past few years, you would think that I would try to do something equal for Father's day. Alas it is not to be so this year. Not that I don't think fathers are important, they just aren't as prevalent in my day to day life. Liam is growing up with lesbian parents so he doesn't have a "Dad". We don't know anything about his father so we have no one to call there. We are visiting Hilary's folks so we are spending the day with Grandpa and we will call my father later to wish him a Happy Father's Day, but that is really the extent of it for us this year.
The day does have me reflecting on my own first father. Someone named Ken who I will never have a chance to meet. I wonder how much like him I would have been? My eyes and my colouring are from his gene pool. What about my height, my laugh, my tone-deafness? Maybe one day I will find his other children, my 1/2 siblings and they will help to fill in the blanks.
But I do wish all the Father's our there a Happy Father's Day!
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Sunday, June 20, 2010
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Father's Day
I pretty much had forgotten that today was Father's day. I haven't been to the mall in a while, so I've missed the splash of ads and cards for sale.
And our immediate family doesn't have a father. Something that Liam has been talking about more in the past few weeks. (Coincidence...maybe?) He doesn't seem distressed about not having a father in his life. He thinks it's a great joke to call me Dad, so I call him William (his "official" name and one that he denies belongs to him!)
Hilary and I, however, do have fathers. Hilary has 2~ her father, and her step-father. He step-father has been in her life since she was 3 and is the main father figure that she grew up with.
So Liam has 3 grandfathers (2 that he calls Grandpa and 1 he calls Grandad, it's all very confusing). They all live very far away from us and we don't see them often. But when we do we try to make sure that Liam gets lots of quality time with them. You know, the stuff that memories (and great pictures) are made of. Here are 3 of my favorite moments of Liam with his grandfathers:
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Grandpa (Hilary's step-dad) and Liam play checkers.
Liam plays air-hockey with my father.
Liam and Grandad have some quiet time together.
And our immediate family doesn't have a father. Something that Liam has been talking about more in the past few weeks. (Coincidence...maybe?) He doesn't seem distressed about not having a father in his life. He thinks it's a great joke to call me Dad, so I call him William (his "official" name and one that he denies belongs to him!)
Hilary and I, however, do have fathers. Hilary has 2~ her father, and her step-father. He step-father has been in her life since she was 3 and is the main father figure that she grew up with.
So Liam has 3 grandfathers (2 that he calls Grandpa and 1 he calls Grandad, it's all very confusing). They all live very far away from us and we don't see them often. But when we do we try to make sure that Liam gets lots of quality time with them. You know, the stuff that memories (and great pictures) are made of. Here are 3 of my favorite moments of Liam with his grandfathers:
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Grandpa (Hilary's step-dad) and Liam play checkers.
Liam plays air-hockey with my father.
Liam and Grandad have some quiet time together.
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