HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!

This edition is a slight departure from the norm.  Today is Father's Day and this blog is dedicated to all the dads who make it their business to do their best for their family.

I have often wondered what a job description of a Father/Dad would look like if someone was applying for the position.  I am sure there would tasks, duties and responsibilities easily recognized as what we stero-typically attribute to a Father.  But then at the end of the list is that last little, almost insignificant notation..."and other duties as needed."

It is to this end I want to direct our attention today those, "and other duties as needed."  

If I were asked to create a list of "other duties" I know, at least from my personal experience, there would not be sufficient room in this blog to contain them all.  

I can tell you that I have been the guest at countless tea parties for two; the "client" at my daughter's "House of Style"; the one who helped her learn how to ride a bike and later drive a car; one of six who hauled an upright piano up a flight of stairs and later down again.  The list goes on.

For me, the joy of fatherhood was not the "expected" responsibilities, but the "other duties" that were and still are the most memorable.

Fathers, here is to the"other duties"!