Father’s Day is the greatest because of this wonderful man. The kids helped make breakfast and Perry helped make the peach pie. Chuck made PB Reese’s pieces cookies 🤤on Saturday. The Primary gave M&M bow ties and YW served meatball subs for lunch. The kids wrote our yearly daddy questionnaires and laughed as he read them. Chuck put that dad is 80 yrs old!! 😆Jo sweetly insisted she buy a root beer for daddy with her own money. (Funny story, see below) After honoring him with a gyudon dinner we enjoyed a perfect family walk with the last of the sunshine for the week. Spencer is everything and more that I’d hoped for in a husband and father. Every child deserves a good father and mother. God’s plan for the family is so wise! The more I parent with Spenc the more I ❤️ him and the more I understand how loving our Heavenly Father is.
Root Beer Story:
On Saturday, I took Josie to the store to get ingredients for Daddy's dinner. She really wanted to buy a root beer for him with her own money. She brought her wallet, picked out one brown glass bottle of Private Selection brand root beer. She waited behind me in line and we separated our purchases with those rubber sticks you put on the conveyor belt. Behind Josie was a dad with his 2 kids, who separated his groceries with a stick too. So there was Josie standing waiting her turn. Her single bottle of root beer clearly marked off as her single purchase. I swiped my kroger card to get the rewards discounts, then when finished paying for our things, I moved up with my cart so Josie could be in front of the cashier. To paint the picture (and maybe explain her behavior), the cashier was an older middle eastern woman with a permanent stern look on her face. No smile, no pleasant tone. Just business: "Tank you for shopping, here is your receipt. Goodbye." When the woman rang up the root beer for Josie, she looked down and with a very serious look asked "Your card please?" I said, "Oh she can use my Kroger card..." and I swiped the rewards card in the machine. The woman looking annoyed at me, turned back to Josie and asked, "I need to see your card to buy this." I told the lady i already swiped my rewards card for her. But she just said, "Your ID card! I need to see your ID card." Josie and I were both confused and i looked up at the man behind Jo for help to clarify. He looked confused too. When I looked back at the woman, I asked, "Why does she need an ID card?" Then she was upset with me and said, "I cannot sell this to her without an ID card to show she is 21!" Then it clicked: she thinks my 7 year old daughter is trying to buy BEER! WHAT?! I tried not laugh when I explained that it's just a soda bottle. But she looked at the bottle, then at me and Josie again. The man behind us helped and said, "Its a soda. Its not alcohol." He started to laugh, but i bit my lip because I could see the woman was not amused. Josie looked scared and still confused. The cashier rang it up, Josie gave her the cash, and the woman handed her the receipt. No "thank for shopping." Not even "Goodbye". Just looked away and began swiping the mans groceries. I looked back at him and he was still giggling. I just shrugged and took Josie's hand.
As we left Josie said, "Why would I buy beer? I'm a little kid! Plus, its so bad for you!" :) We both just started laughing. When we told daddy the story today, he laughed pretty hard too. Silly people.
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