Father's Day

What a crazy day two weeks. Father's Day is a weird day for me personally, but that's not the point of this post, that's for another time on a different blog. Our Father's Day today comes with mixed reviews. We had a good morning with well behaved children and a happy dad. A so/so afternoon with hyper children and mildly grumpy, "yelly" dad.

We had supper and decided it was finally cool enough to go fishing. That was JD's Father's Day gift, a fishing license and a new rod and reel. We left the kids at home with our house guests and ran away to Gage Park hoping to get a quiet spot and just enjoy some time away. I'm not sure if you've been to the park on Father's Day but goodness gracious I was unprepared. I had assumed since we had waited until after 8pm that it would be dead. I was dead wrong. It was crowded! Even around the little slimy fishing pond there was family after family with hardly enough room between them to cast out.

We headed out to Lake Shawnee hoping for a little more room to ourselves. The beach that JD normally likes to fish at was very crowded so we parked at the entrance to the frisbee golf course and sat in a quiet cove watching some crazy 20-somethings try to tip over their boat attempting a whirlpool. I was amused, anyway. JD got his fishing pole all ready to go. He cast it out and realized after it had hit the water that the handle for his new reel was missing! He went up and searched the van hoping it had just fallen off or gotten knocked around in transport. I told him I thought that was something we would have noticed in the store, however we were a bit distracted as it was Walmart on Saturday and we were just wasting time waiting for our prescriptions to be filled. No luck in the van though. He threw in the towel, finally defeated, and went about the long arduous process of reeling in a fishing line with no handle. Turns out it takes about 5 minutes to reel in your line when you don't have a handle, who knew? We packed it up and went back home, hardly an hour later. :(

While I'm just happy to have gotten a Father's Day, I'm sad that it couldn't have been better for JD. Sometimes though life throws us these weird days and we just have to take it in stride. I'm hoping next year can be a little more exciting with hopefully less disappointment. I have to say once again how proud I am of him. Regardless of how many times he threatens homicide or other bodily harm against me, I'm so proud that he hasn't had another cigarette and continues to work every day at living a healthier and much longer life!

I have another post coming about the joy that is Cardiac Rehab and also one about how the kids are taking all of these dietary and lifestyle changes. Fun stuff there! Come back soon :)