It's different

Men, husbands, and fathers......today is Father's Day.  I don't know about you, but in all of my experience Father's Day has always been different than Mother's Day.  In fact, way different.

• the kids seem to do more, and with more exuberance on Mother's Day than they do on Father's Day it has always seemed
• I never heard of any father getting a dozen red roses on Father's Day...
• or an obviously child connived and helpfully prepared breakfast in bed...
• or even an offer to walk the dog...after all pop, it is your day !

If it sounds like I may be a bit put off by the fact that Father's Day as always not quite made the grade the way Mother's Days always seem to, not to worry...I'm not, not at all.  For, you see, I really do think this difference is just plain natural.  I doubt it will ever be any other way either.

Consider this...

• Moms are with the kids for the 9 months before they are born, and that bond continues pretty much the same right up until school time.  Dads are out working, providing, and just don't get to put in the time mom gets to.
• Moms are usually the ones to kiss the ouchies, and other essential things of importance to those young'uns.
• A lot of the time it is the mom that "caves in" more often than the dad
• face it....the bond is just different....and that's ok

Have you wondered where this is going yet?  Well, Mr. Man, Father, or Husband, take a look at yourself and how things have been in your life over the past year as you have fulfilled your role as a man, and/or a husband, and/or a father and how you have impacted those around you.  It most likely hasn't been a steady climb up.  It has probably been a climb that has given you a few rock slides, slips, and drops, but none the less I'd bet that nothing is the same as this past year.  Unless your head has been buried under the rocks, you have come out of the past year at the very least a bit better as a man, husband, and father.  When you look at your wife and kids today, look with happy eyes and a loving heart....irregardless of what has transpired during this past year.  And embrace yourself, without any expectation that anyone else will do so, for coming out of the year a step ahead of where you were last year.  And thank God for it.  And have a Happy Father's Day, even if it might be different.