Last night I made it a point to get my brain in gear and come up with something for Father's Day for Hubby's Dad, my Dad, and my Hubby. I figured if I needed to mail something I definitely needed to get it in the mail today to make it to SC on time for our fathers. I love to kill two birds with one stone and decided I needed to shop for Hubby too.
The kids and I set out on a Target journey in hopes to not spend our whole life savings (everyone knows that Target is the devil), and to find all the gifts that we needed. Prior to going to Target I sucked it up and made what I wanted to make for our fathers. Weeks ago I got the idea to make our fathers a calendar on Shutterfly of pictures of our family, the kids, and their other Grandkids. I was thinking against it this week knowing that I waited too long to make it for it to get delivered on time. My dear friend assured me that it would be just fine if it got to them late, but to make the calendars anyway. I thought long and hard about what to get our fathers and was sure that even though they wouldn't say it, but they would be tired of yet another gift card from us. I knew that they would really love and cherrish a cool calendar with pictures of their Grandkids and family. Two hours later, I was done with the calendars and knew I made the right gift choice.
Back to Target, I allowed the kids to pick out what they wanted to get their Dad. Gracee is very resourceful like myself, and found an idea on You Tube of something she wanted to make her Dad. I was quite impressed and happy that I didn't have to think of this. She got her materials and her present came out perfect!
Gracee made a "Dad's (Mu) Stache" jar of candy. I had seen this on Pinterest and of course pinned it, but didn't actually think to make it! She found a large mason jar and all her Dad's favorite candies and she was set. When she got home she used black construction paper and a silver sharpie and made her creation. She even revealed to me that she put a little glue on the paper to make it stick to the glass. I didn't cringe at the thought of her doing this due to my hopes of reusing the jar for my own purposes. I of course smiled and praised her on her creativity.
Materials from Target:
Large Mason Jar $1.99
Assorted Candy 3 bags for $10
Next I asked Georgee what he wanted to get Dad. He said "A thing that Dad can make pancakes and grill on". So I'm thinking a griddle. We did buy him one for Father's Day like six years ago, but of course one too many Army moves broke it. We looked at the griddles and they were just #teamtoomuch. Especially for a Dad that never makes pancakes! Instead Georgee settled on getting his Dad some Avengers pajama bottoms. Gracee also picked out a Corona t-shirt because she said, "It's Dad's favorite beer...and look it's even his favorite kind...the Extra one". I could die right there. Kids pay attention and tell everything. Lastly I added a Brita water bottle. Hubby is the only one in the house that doesn't have one, and Mama is tired of buying him bottled water! We finished it all off with a cute little basket.
Materials from Target:
Corona T-shirt $12.99
Avengers Pj bottoms $17.99
Water Bottle $15.00
Basket $3.00
Not bad for a last minute, yet thoughtful gift!
