Father’s Day“0 Comments”
katia | 6:05 pm | May 20, 2008 | Gifts for Dads, Father's Day, Father's Day Gifts, Father's Day Gift, Father's Day Spa, Gifts for Dad, Father's Day Quotes, Father's Day History, Fathers, TheGift.com
“The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get”- Tim Russert
“There is more to fathers than meets the eye”- Margaret Atwood
Father’s Day is celebrated on the third Sunday of the month of June, and this year it will be on June 15th. Fathers are equally important as mothers, although we seem to put some more weight and fanfare on Mother’s Day. I found a couple of quotes about fathers, two of which I wrote above, that sums up, in a very simple and succinct way, what fathers represent in our lives. We will only start agreeing with our father and giving him credit (and actually paying attention to his long sermons) after we get older ourselves and start living what he lived before. There’s a reason for the saying “voice of experience”. There is also way more to our fathers than meets the eye. Fathers usually play the secondary role in the movie of our lives, but nevertheless, they actively participate and are highly involved in our lives, but in their way. They protect, support and love us all the way!It’s time for us to show a bit of gratitude in return. Not that a gift once a year will do the trick, but remembering your dad on Father’s Day is very symbolic of what he means to you. Since I found a couple of interesting sites about Father’s Day, I will post a slightly different list of sites this time, without focusing on gifts only. I will group them in categories, so it’s easier for you to find what you want.
Gifts
As usual, Gifts.com is a great resource for gifts. This fog-free mirror is very cool for the dads on the go who need to convenience when getting ready in the morning.
We don’t usually send dad flowers, but this one arrangement is very cool and “manly”, if you will. It’s the Golfball Dish Garden from 1-800-Flowers.com. For the dads who love golf, this will be a hit to decorate his desk.
For the fun and creative dads, some funky t-shirts will be ideal. CafeExpress.com has many funky t-shirts for all the funky dads.
Oh yes!!! They will like a fine SPA treatment as well. We all lead stressful lives and being a dad only compounds it. Here a few resources to help on your search:About.com - Buying a Spa Gift Certificate & Spas for MenSpaFinder.com – Everything you need to find a Spa
Father’s Day History, Quotes & Curiosities
If you’d like to know about the history of Father’s Day, read a few famous and interesting quotes about fathers and learn about other interesting factors about the occasion, you can visit these sites:
Wilstar.com - Happy Father’s Day
Loveyoufather.com – Father’s Day
Fathersdaycelebration.com – Father’s Day
Fathering
Fathers.com is the site of the National Center for Fathering. Great resource to brush up our dads’ fathering skills! Even though we think they are heroes, fathers also need some help once in a while.
Happy Father’s Day!
Baseball Popcorn Tins“0 Comments”
steve | 11:27 pm | October 21, 2007 | Gifts for Sons, Popcorn, Gifts for Dads, Gifts for Friends, Gifts for Sports Fans
As I write this, the Boston Red Sox are up 5-2 in the bottom of the 8th in Game 7 of the 2007 ALCS. With all respect to Yogi, I think it’s over. So I will go ahead and write my blog entry now, and write my congratulations to the Red Sox and the Rockies.
It should be an interesting Series. As you’re rooting on your favorite team in the 2007 World Series, why not celebrate with an official licensed Major League Baseball Popcorn Tin from The Popcorn Factory?
Or, if you know someone (oh, say the writer of this blog) who is still in mourning after watching their young pitching phenom attacked by bugs, or if you know someone who watched their team crumble towards the end of the season or someone who watched their team get swept, swept, swept, or swept, why not buy them a popcorn tin of their own fulled with delicious popcorn? They can drown their sorrows in the delicious caramel, butter, and cheddar cheese flavored popcorn, and maybe that can help them get through the long, dark winter until pitchers and catchers in February.
The Popcorn Factory has a deal and a half on one tin in particular. Since The Popcorn Factory is based in Chicago, it appears that they may have produced a wee bit too many Chicago Cubs tins with special blue and red colored popcorn. The popcorn is actually butter flavored (the red and blue is food coloring), and is completely fresh and delicious. These tins would certainly have been part of many Chicago celebrations had the Cubs made it to the NLCS and the World Series. But alas, the celebrations will have to wait another year, and the popcorn can’t. So you can get a huge tin of Chicago Cubs red and blue popcorn, ordinarily $21.99, for only $10.99.