I don’t know … I have always kind of felt that Father’s Day pretty clearly falls in the Hallmark Holiday category.  Somehow, though, I don’t put Mother’s Day in this category.  I used to.  Before the onslaught of children, I would celebrate these days and pay tribute to the old people who had raised me but, the truth is, I had no idea just how much they had done.

Now, I have a pretty good idea.  Though the adventure is far from over, thankfully, the picture of their sacrifice is becoming clearer with every year.  Now, as I celebrate another Father’s Day, I still think it falls in the Hallmark Holiday.  I don’t need cards and gifts to celebrate another year of me being a Dad.  The gifts come every day in the moments and memories with my monsters.