Father’s Day reflections June 20, 2006
Posted by writereverend in Fatherhood.1 comment so far
Wow, on Sunday I celebrated my first Father's Day as a father. Being a first-time dad, I was pretty excited to see what goodies I might reap as a result of my new-found status. And sure enough, I got a gift card to Barnes and Noble as well as we had a pizza party at church in honor of the day. A pretty good day – an attempt to make me smarter and an attempt to clog my arteries (and all in the same day!)
It is exciting to watch my son grow up. Yesterday he had his first vaccines against all kinds of horrible things, and although some of them do seem a bit ridiculous, I guess they're for the better. I know he's only two months old but the time has already flown by. Soon my wife will be heading back to work and I will be the primary caregiver during the day. Yep, I'm a little nervous but we had a trial run last Saturday when she was gone all day for her birthday present. And other than the fact that he wore his nightclothes all day, we made it through with flying colors! So soon we'll be on our own, it'll be dad and lad through the day. I'll keep you posted on how that goes!
