Father's Day

Being as I more or less have two lives now, one in Omaha, and one in Des Moines, I am celebrating Father's Day twice this year.

With my sweetie
There was nothing lavish or over the top. Rather, it was a nice, quiet, relaxing evening that included one simple and very touching gift. I have always said that it is the simple little things that I love so much about Lindsey, and her gift reminded me of just how incredible she is with those little things.

Everyone knows that I spend my weeks here in Omaha, and that I am away from my kids during the week. Her gift to me was a card and four silver picture frames for me to keep here. One for each of my children. So I can keep them close, and see them every night. Like I said... not a huge gift, but very special to me and it touched my heart. Sometimes I can't believe how lucky I am to have found someone so thoughtful and caring.

With my kids
Father's Day had a little bit of a rocky start for me. I had a HUGE implementation Saturday night, so I was on a conference call from 10:30 until about 2:30 am Sunday morning. With that, I was hoping to be able to sleep in a little and that didn't happen. Anyway, once the day actually got started it turned out to be a pretty good day. I spent most of it being lazy and playing with Em. She was in a playful mood all day, and of course I had to take advantage of that.

After playing most of the day, I enjoyed a nice spaghetti dinner prepared by the kids. Johnathan always loves to cook, so of course it was good. He had made a nice Chinese dinner for everyone the night before also. Once everyone was stuffed, I went back to being lazy and went down to watch a movie. Em was tired from playing all day and she snuggled in on my lap and crashed in just a few minutes. It was a good ending to a good day.