(The third in a series of Cliff posts, in what we have come to know as "Golden Week" in the Stuart household...the week which contains Cliff's birthday, our anniversary and Father's Day each year.)
Any day we get to honor this man is a great day...but this year Father's Day kind of snuck up on me. To tell you the truth, I was absolutely spent after graduation and the end of the school year. Completely. Done. So much so that I thought we had another week. I didn't mail out any cards, and found myself shopping on Saturday night, in between commitments.
Lucky for us, our District Conference was scheduled for today's church, at 1 PM instead of our usual 9 AM...which meant we had plenty of time for breakfast...
But we waited until afterward to shower him with the gifts and cards.
He really wanted very little...car seat covers (that would match O'Malley's green) and a car CD holder. That was it. Could I find those things on this island? Not easily. Every set of covers I came across was totally, completely lame. I was getting very frustrated (on top of only having 2.5 hours to shop) and almost gave up. I was at the gas station on Kadena AFB (which two people told me would have what I was looking for) and they had the same stupid stuff everyone else did. Then, I lifted up a plastic package of lameness, and underneath...I saw them:
Can you believe it? It's like they were made for O'Malley...and the Imperial Stuarts.
I never did find the kind of CD holder he wanted...but I did find a bunch of other car stuff (an emergency kit, an organizer, etc.) and this really cute golf shirt...and notice the bonus Godiva? Godiva makes up for everything.
For dinner, we had grilled tenderloin steak, corn on the cob and a fabulous salad (if I do say so myself) with cherry cobbler for dessert...followed by a few raging rounds of Apples to Apples. Neighbor Dave was our guest, as his family is in the States for the Summer.
A fabulous, relaxing, drama-free day...just the way it should be.
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