Celebrating Life - EveryDay

"Honor your father and mother." This is the first of the Ten Commandments that ends with a promise. And this is the promise: If you honor your father and mother, "you will live a long life, full of blessing." And now a word to you fathers. Don't make your children angry by the way you treat them. Rather, bring them up with the discipline and instruction approved by the Lord.

Fathers are the biggest source of strength for a child. The innocent eyes of a child perceive father as the all-powerful, most knowledge, truly affectionate and the most important person in the family. For daughters, fathers are the first men they adore and fall in love with. While for sons their fathers are the strongest person they know and someone they aspire to emulate. Even for the grownups fathers are someone whom they look up to for the most experienced and honest advice that is always in the best of our interest. For this great figure in our life that we know as father - it becomes our utmost duty to pay our humblest tribute on the occasion of Father's Day.

Say Thanks to Dad on Father's Day
Children blessed with a loving father should consider themselves fortunate. For, they have someone to take care of their needs and interests. Someone to stop them when they are diverting to a wrong path and guide them on a road to success and virtue. For many of us fathers have always been there to solve our innumerous mathematics and science problems and explain the same formula hundredth time or better still until it is understood by us. Fathers would never ever give a smallest of hint to let us know how hard they work to take care of our needs and fulfill even the most whimsical of demands... For all their adorable scolding and affectionate punishments we all owe a big thanks to our Dads.

Apologize to Dad on Father's Day
Father's Day also brings with it the wonderful opportunity to apologize for all our rude and insensitive behavior. We as children often take the love and affection of our parents for granted and treat them with outright contempt. We need to apologize. We must feel great to have the presence of loving father in our lives and do not disrespect the blessing of God on us. On Father's Day we must says "Sorry" to our Dad and seek their forgiveness for our wrong behavior.

Celebrate Father's Day with Dad
We must make all efforts to celebrate Father's Day with our Dad. Children staying away from father must especially strive to spend the day with father and show gratitude for all their support and love. We must pamper father by spending the day in a manner he likes most. It could be going out for a picnic or indulging him with a gourmet meal. We can also express love with thoughtful gifts accompanied by a bouquet of his favorite flowers. The idea is to show our affection and tell Daddy how much he is loved and appreciated not just on Father's Day but every single day of our lives.

Everyone celebrates Father's Day a bit differently, but if you are looking for something a bit different then here are some things/ways you might consider.

Flowers - Yes flowers!
Honestly. How many ties does 1 dad need?!

If you know your dad has a special flower then a bunch would be a nice gesture. If you are unsure what type of flower, then the elegance of a single rose will let him know you care

Homemade Card/Picture
It doesn't matter if you're 8, 28 or 48, a handmade card or note from the heart speaks more of your feelings than the store bought variety.

If your artistic ability is a bit lacking check out our selection of Father's Day coloring pictures that you can print out and color. Or make life easy on yourself by sending a free Father's Day eCard.

Home cooking
Give mom the day off as well and invite them both over for a good home cooked meal. But remember today is not the day to test out that new recipe. Play it safe and stick to dads favorite.

Dinner
If your not the home cooking type - then nothings better than being treated to a tasty meal at a nice restaurant surrounded by the ones you love. It doesn't have to be anywhere fancy, depending on your dad it could be the neighborhood diner or even the locale pizzareia.

Munchies
Does your dad have a sweet tooth? A plate of those homemade cookies or his favorite pie tastes even better when he knows it comes from your heart

Perhaps we all carry a misconception throughout our lives whether men like to receive gifts of flowers? Who doesn't like flowers? Men are not an exception to it. The beautiful flowers are the perfect way to express our love and appreciation for all those people who are important to us. This Father's Day, we are getting the opportunity to remind our dad just how special he is for all of us. As we have said earlier, flowers have the charisma to catch the hearts and touch the soul of every individual. They will surely take their fragrance to our dad and make him feel extra special on this Father's Day.

Be very cautious while choosing your Father's Day flowers. Generally when it comes to selecting flowers for men we tend to go towards flowers with bold and distinctive characteristics. We think that compelling forms, striking colors, dramatic lines, and strong textures are the symbols of masculine style design. But this is the time to express your love, care and support to dad. So present him only those flowers which make him feel really special.

Flower categories like Tropical blooms provide themselves quite well to floral designs and arrangements for the Father's Day. Robust flowers such as the waxy, heart-shaped anthurium or the flamboyant bird- of-paradise make a powerful impact with their vibrant shades and uncommon shapes. Fathers Day FlowersYou can also go for other tropical flowers like robust ginger blooms, angular heliconias (relatives of the bird-of-paradise), and various other species of exotic orchids. Subtropical flowers like proteas, gerberas, and leucadendrons are well-matched with the tropicals because of their bold presence.

As they come from warmer regions, tropical flowers are quite durable and well suited to household conditions. If adequate care is taken, fresh cut tropical flowers can last for two weeks or more and add more charm to the Father's Day celebrations.

As it is his day, dad would love and appreciate a vegetative style Father's Day flower arrangement. To give a vegetative design to Father's day flower arrangements, flowers are arranged in vertical groups, the way they grow in their own natural way. A vegetative Father's Day floral arrangement takes on a truly robust and masculine quality.

Ingredients:
* 1 cup margarine
* 1 cup sugar
* 2 eggs
* 1 tsp vanilla
* 1 1/2 cup flour
* 1 1/4 cup quick rolled oats (dry oatmeal)
* 1/4 cup wheat germ
* 1 tsp baking soda
* 1/2 tsp salt
* 1/2 tsp cinnamon
* 1 cup chocolate chipsa

Directions:

1. Collect all of the ingredients above and
bring them to your work area along with
2 bowls for mixing, a measuring cup,
measuring spoons, a tablespoon, a wooden
spoon, an electric mixer, a cookie sheet, oven mitts and a spatula.
2. Preheat oven to 325 F.
3. In a large mixing bowl, cream together margarine and sugar (you can use an electic mixer on medium speed
to do this). Beat in eggs and vanilla
4. In a medium mixing bowl, combine dry ingredients: flour, rolled oats, salt, wheat germ, baking soda,
cinnamon (mix together with a wooden spoon).
5. Add dry ingredients to creamed mixture about 1/4 cup at a time, using the electric mixer on medium speed
to combine until about the last 1/4 cup when you'll have to switch to a wooden spoon.
6. Stir in the chocolate chips with a wooden spoon
7. Drop by teaspoonful onto an ungreased cookie sheet.
8. Bake at 325 for 12 to 14 minutes
9. (Grandma's secret to success: turn cookie sheets twice during baking time)
10. While the cookies are baking, tidy up your work space.
11. Remove the cookies from the baking sheet with a spatula and set on a plate in a single layer to cool.