Daddy Dan

We celebrated Father's Day yesterday with grilled steak, corn on the cob, and cherry pie. (Dan grilled the steaks, I made the pie.) It was all good!

At Mass earlier in the day, our parish priest was talking about the importance of fathers being involved with their children. He talked about some study from a few years ago where they asked fathers to keep track of how much time they spent with their children over a couple weeks. The average was 17 minutes a day. Meanwhile, they secretly asked the mothers to keep track of how much time the fathers spent with their children and they reported an average of 1.7 minutes a day. I'm sure the real average was somewhere in the middle, but if they had included Dan in this study, he would have been way off the chart!

Dan makes spending time with his family a priority. He reads to the kids, takes them outside to play all the time, lets them "help" him in the garden, and they love nothing more than to snuggle with Daddy on the couch.

So here's to Daddy Dan, an off the chart kind of daddy!