Happy Father's Day!

I have here my recent gift idea suited for Father's Day. It's a customized wine bottle adorned with our locally made thread called "abacca" and wooden buttons with personalized names on it─placed atop of a metal wire "calesa". Perfectly wonderful token to surprise your dear father. You may also put something on it like your Dad's favorite rum or any men's drink─to add some fun.

Father's Day is celebrated throughout the world. This is a very special day honoring our fathers as we take this opportunity to give our thanks for everything they do for us. The date of celebration varies from country to country. In the Philippines, the celebrations take place on the 3rd Sunday of June every year.

The idea of Father's Day was conceived in Spokane, Washington by Sonora Louis Smart Dodd while she listened to a Mother's Day sermon in 1909.

Dodd wanted a special day to honor her father, William Smart, a widowed Civil War veteran who was left to raise his six children on a farm.

The following year, June 19, 1910 was chosen for the first Father's Day celebration, proclaimed by Spokane's mayor because it was the month of William Smart's birth.

Decades later, the first presidential proclamation honoring fathers was issued in 1966 when President Lyndon Johnson designated the third Sunday in June as Father's Day. Father's Day has been celebrated annually since 1972 when President Richard Nixon signed the public law that made it permanent.

SIMPLE WAYS TO CELEBRATE FATHER'S DAY

• Wish him "Happy Father's Day" by offering a bouquet of fresh flowers and/or greeting card.
  
• Prepare his favorite food.


• Plan a picnic, outing, family get-together, etc.


• Go for shopping. Buy him new clothes, wallet, etc.


• Invite him for lunch at his favorite restaurant.


• Arrange a small family gathering and invite some of his good friends.


• Invite him to watch a movie of his choice.
  
• Send him simple gifts.


• Buy him his favorite stuff for his hobbies (e.g. tools, books, sports stuff, etc.)


• Most especially, make that day the most important for your father, have him enjoy and relax and make this day something to treasure about.
  

"HAPPY FATHER'S DAY" (In various languages):

• Filipino : "Maligayang Araw ng mga Ama"


• English : "Happy Father's Day"


• Mandarin : "Fu Qing Jie Kuai Le"
  
• Malaysia : "Selamat Hari Bapak"


• Spanish : "Día de padres feliz"
  
• Italian : "Giorno di padri felice"
  
• Indonesian : "Selamat hari Ayah"
  
• Irish : "Lá na Athair"
  
• Dutch : "De gelukkige Dag van Vaders
  
• Portuguese : "Dia de pais feliz"
  
• French : "Jour de p""res heureux"
  

SOME BEST FATHER'S DAY QUOTES:

• "Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers--and fathering is a very important stage in their development." ~ David Gottesman
  
• "My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it, I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh--anything but work." ~ Abraham Lincoln
  
• "Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes." ~ Euripedes
  
• "It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was." ~ Anne Sexton
  
• "Any man can be a father but it takes someone special to be a dad." ~ Abraham Lincoln
  
• "I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection." ~ Sigmund Freud
  
• "Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance." ~ Ruth Renkel
  
• "A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty." ~ Unknown
  
• "It is a wise father that knows his own child." ~ William Shakespeare
  
• "By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong." ~ Charles Wadsworth
  

Short Note for My Father:

***I may not have the richest father in the world nor a famous one; He may not either be perfect nor the genius man, but for us, he is just more than enough to be called "Dad". "Happy Father's Day Tatay Ipe (┼), we miss you!"