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How much do I love that my daughters' nursery school helps the kids make Father's Day gifts?

It's great to have a helping hand with any kind of holiday preparation.  They made these perfectly funky pencil holders out of cans and adorable cards decorated with sea horses.

At home, I helped my daughters paint pictures for my husband.  This was no huge deal, really, but it did require an evening's worth of setting up the paints and the easel, doing the actual paintings and then scrubbing off the girls and all the brushes and paint pots.

We also had fun doing some Father's Day shopping, but then, suddenly, all my free time was gone and it was Father's Day.

The girls, of course, were all ready, but I found myself with no card of my own to give my husband.  I had envisioned a home-made card, beautifully appointed with a photo and note, but suddenly the day came and I hadn't done it.

At some point during the day (after our lunchtime picnic and carousel ride) I told my husband that the day felt perfect and celebratory, but that I was sorry that I didn't have a card for him.  I just don't know where the time went.  I told him that I love him and think that he's an amazing father.

He cracked up and said that he still had a half-finished Mother's Day poem for me.  He, too (with the nursery school's help) had gotten the girls ready and had found himself without a scrap of extra time to do anything else.

I guess Father's Day and Mother's Day offered us the opportunity to at least tell each other the words that we didn't have time to write.