How to Pull Off a Simple – Yet Special – Father’s Day

Karen — Fri, 05 Jun 2015 04:00:59 +0000

Written by Karen @ To Work With My Hands, Contributing Writer

Father’s Day is just around the corner. Have you made plans yet?

When you have several young children, it can sometimes be a challenge to pull together a big celebration. Thankfully, celebrating special days doesn’t have to be big or complicated. Just putting a little “heart’ into them can make even the simplest plans memorable.

If you still have small children who need lots of help with Father’s Day, you’ll likely be focusing most of your efforts on your husband. Have you considered lately just how incredible he is?

As a single-income family, my husband has, by God’s grace, gone out nearly every weekday for almost 3 decades to provide a living for our family. There have been seasons of long hours, pressures of project deadlines, and at times, extended travel that put him in a lonely hotel room while the rest of us were still together at home.

Day in and day out, he has persevered, endured numerous difficult work-related situations, and stayed the course – all for us.

He’s also been a strong and faithful father. Raising a house full of boys isn’t easy, and I know I certainly couldn’t have navigated some of the most difficult times without his wisdom, strength, and leadership. You might just say he’s my hero.

I’m sure you have your own special hero too! What better way to celebrate them this Father’s Day than with a big, delicious hero sandwich? Gather a few ingredients and create a lunch or dinner that will make him feel just as special as he is.

You can make your own fresh homemade buns or rolls, or choose from the wide variety of breads in the bakery of your grocery store.

Here’s some ideas:

Flour tortillas or flatbread
Pita pockets
Sub rolls
Ciabata rolls
Kaiser rolls
French baguettes
Sourdough rolls
Bagels
Whole grain sandwich bread

And here’s some filling ideas to get you started:

Deli meat (we love Hormel’s Natural Choice, which are free of added nitrates.)
Sliced cheese – try muenster, baby swiss, provolone, cheddar, or mozzarella
Sandwich-sliced pickles
Sliced tomatoes
Lettuce
Pickled jalapeño peppers
Sliced red or yellow onions
Green or ripe olives
Sliced sweet bell peppers in various colors
Condiments such as mayonnaise, flavored mustards, oil and vinegar, salt, and pepper

Serve your sandwiches with a simple fresh fruit salad, his favorite crackers or chips and dip, or a big dill pickle. Round it out with his favorite dessert (it will be something including chocolate here!), and you’ll have a meal fit for a hero.

Be sure to get your children involved too:

Enlist their help assembling the ingredients for your sandwiches.
Help them write notes of gratitude to their Daddy before Father’s Day.
If you have children old enough, let them serve their Daddy by taking his plate to him at the table.
Make sure he knows he’s everyone’s hero.

By investing just a little time and effort, you can keep things simple and still make it a very special and memorable Father’s Day for your hero.

Do you have more ideas for making Father’s Day special?

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Father’s Day Printable {One for Grandpa too!}

Rachel — Thu, 05 Jun 2014 21:14:56 +0000

This year is going by so fast (for me!). And so many milestones have already happened in these first 6 short months. I had our 3rd baby at home, our son graduated co-op kindergarten and our daughter is no longer a preschooler after this summer.

We’ve already passed so many holidays and now it’s time for Father’s Day!

Almost every year I create some kind of gift for my kids’ Daddy. We’ve had professional pictures taken, we’ve made a craft canvas, made an ABC book of why they love him, so I’ve been thinking what I should do this year. After all, he got me a beautiful necklace with rhinestones of the kids’ birthstones and other charms.

So I decided to purchase My Dad Rocks tshirts for the kids, we might make this DIY Aftershave for him and we made this Father’s Day Hand-print Printable to put in a 8.5X11 (standard paper size) magnetic fridge frame… and I’m sharing it with y’all!

note: Please feel free to use this printable for your own personal use. If you’d like to share this printable with other Moms or friends, please do not share the pdf printable download but this post link. You can also pin it so others can make use of it.

This printable is based on the verse in Proverbs 20:7:

“A righteous man who walks in his integrity– How blessed are his sons after him.”

Get your Father’s Day Printable:

You have a couple of options, you can choose one for Daddy or Grandpa or both! You can print one for each child or if you have one child, choose the I am blessed to call you Daddy/Grandpa printable.

If you have multiple children and want them to put their hand-prints on the same page, choose the We are blessed to call you Daddy/Grandpa printable. I also have a Papaw option too since my kids call their Grandfather Papaw, email me if you’d like it since it is not on this post.

Once you have printed yours, get a stamp pad or acrylic paint and add your children’s hand/s to personalize it. Write their name/s with a sharpie underneath or on their hand-print for memories if you wish.

Free Printable Download options:

You can also go to Intoxicated on Life for more DIY gift ideas & printables for Dad.

What are you making or giving for Father’s Day this year?

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