Father's Day Recap

This past Sunday I got to celebrate my first Father's Day as an actual father. I still can't believe that I'm a father now. I can't fully describe how happy I feel when I look at Daniel in my arms and watch him grow each day. I love the way his eyes lock onto mine when I'm feeding him. I've come to fully appreciate the gift that we call life, especially when he wraps his chubby, yet adorable hand around my pinky finger. I am blessed to have Daniel as my son.

The day started off with me waking up really late. Daniel had kept us up for most of the night so Tary and I were exhausted. He finally fell asleep but that's when I would start getting ready for Church. After a quick shower, we packed up Daniel and head out the door. We arrived at Church just in time for the singing of the 2nd hymn and before Pastor's prayer.

Today's sermon in 2 Samuel was about the consequences of our sin from the father's perspective. David was a great king, warrior, musician, poet, and religious leader. However, Pastor went on to explain that David clearly lacked as a husband and father. David's sins were great and we read about the various consequences which resulted from his sin and his attempts to covering them up.

Pastor explained that fathers ought to live for the Lord and to raise their children up to do the same. He concluded his message to the fathers in the congregation with the simple message, "Get to work". Amen.

The following note was included in this week's Church calendar. I thought it was noteworthy to include in this blog post because it provides excellent counsel to new parents like me. I definitely will revisit this list periodically as Daniel grows.

Counsel to Parents:
1. From day one teach your children obedience and respect for authority.
2. Teach them the relationship between privilege and responsibility.
3. Teach your children the relationship between actions and consequences.

After the service, we went to my parents' house to have a special Father's Day lunch. My brother, his fiancee, and Tary's parents also came for the food and fellowship. It really was nice seeing how happy our parents were to see and hold Daniel. On a side note, I'm glad I spoke with my mom the other week. She loves seeing Daniel when we come over each Sunday. And she definitely enjoyed babysitting two weeks ago when Tary and I attended a wedding.

After lunch, Tary, Daniel, and I drove to Buy Buy Baby to look into getting another baby monitor and to pick up some miscellaneous supplies. We have another baby monitor but we didn't realize the one we have does not have a parent's unit. You can view the video feed online (e.g., on your phone or laptop) but there is no sound which makes it kind of useless if you're sleeping in another room and can't hear the baby crying. So we ended up getting the baby monitor that I previously lobbied for. ;)

We stopped by a recently opened butcher shop, The Meat House, on the way home.  Tary and I don't normally buy fancy cuts of meat from butcher shops so we were a little overwhelmed at the variety of meats and cuts. After asking for some recommendations, we picked up some steak tips, some ribs, and a rib eye steak. Since we bought so much food, we figured we should just invite the guys over for some BBQ so I sent out a mass text message.

By about 6 PM, I started grilling some of the steak tips. The meat was moist, tender, and delicious. We'll definitely have to buy more the next time we're there. My friends started to trickle in as the food started coming off of the grill. Tary pulled the ribs from the oven and they were fall-off-the-bone good! It's feels sooooo good to be on top of the food chain.

After everyone had enough to eat, we started a game of Star Munchkin with the Clown Wars expansion. It was another hilarious game full of plenty of blackmailing, bullying, some wasteful spending of "Level Up" cards, some fuzzy math, and ultimately ended with a 5-way tie for the winners. What made it even funnier was that there were only 6 of us playing.

So that was a recap of my first Father's Day and it was such a great day. I love being a father!