Here is a little history behind Fathers Days. What does Fathers Day mean to you?
Father’s Day is celebrated popularly on the 3rd Sunday in June in many parts of the world. The idea for creating a day for children to honor their fathers began in Spokane, Washington. A woman by the name of Sonora Smart Dodd thought of the idea for Father’s Day while listening to a Mother’s Day sermon in 1909. Having been raised by her father, Henry Jackson Smart, after her mother died, Sonora wanted her father to know how special he was to her. It was her father that made all the parental sacrifices and was, in the eyes of his daughter, a courageous, selfless, and loving man. Sonora’s father was born in June, so she chose to hold the first Father’s Day celebration in Spokane, Washington on the 19th of June, 1910.
In 1924, President Calvin Coolidge proclaimed the third Sunday in June as Father’s Day. President Nixon, in 1972, established a permanent national observance of Father’s Day to be held on the third Sunday of June. So Father’s Day was born as a token of love and gratitude that a daughter cherishes for her beloved father. Roses are the Father’s Day flowers: red to be worn for a living father and white if the father has died.
So here we have it. What are your plans for Father’s Day?
Myself I see it with the kids coming home and we have a nice dinner together and we talk about some of the good times we have had. I’m real close to my kids and I hope that never changes. We have been noted to share some of the world’s most embarrassing moments and rub each other a little. They do it to me the most. I have to say it gets quite humorous around the house and I admire the fact that they remember so many things in our past…I feel in my family, my kids would never let this day go by without some kind of acknowledgment of it…
