HAPPY FATHERS DAY!!!!!!!!

Hello!!! This is SoHo checking in again to wish all the dads out there a very HAPPY FATHERS DAY!!!!!!!!!!!! To all the fathers out there, this is your day, you deserve it so enjoy it and hope you spend it with the people you love!!! By the way, to all you non fathers (meaning sons, daughters, mothers etc. ) How are you celebrating Fathers' Day today? Personally, I was going to make my father some chocolates but he's not too much a fan of sweet stuff. I also wanted to have dinner with him tonight but I wont be available because of Fathers Day... Kinda strange eh? It's going to be very busy today so I have a really long shift. For now, I have a couple of hours till i have to work. It's going to be a very busy day. Anyway enough of my yapping. Happy Fathers' Day!!!!!!!!!
Now here's a little history on how Fathers Day came about. You know it was laughed at and almost not made an official day... check out why below...



the story of how Father's Day came to be is still pretty interesting. A blog from a Detroit church explains that most historians credit a woman named Sonora Smart Dodd with creating the holiday. Ms. Smart Dodd was "inspired by her father, a widower and Civil War veteran named William Jackson Smart." She wanted to do something to honor his memory while paying respect to all fathers.

Clearly she was a woman with a plan. Alas, not everybody agreed with her pleas to "give it up for the papas" (our words, not hers). In fact, Ms. Smart Dodd's proposal was often mocked when it first made the rounds. Folks felt it unnecessary. And the all-male United States Congress felt that having a holiday for fathers might look like they were trying to give themselves "a pat on the back."

Additionally, many just plain didn't want the holiday. An article from Inspiration Line explains that, according to an article in The Spokesman-Review, "one group of men conventioneers laughed and said they didn't want a Father's Day. A National Fishing Day would be better, they told her."

Though many scoffed, the holiday was eventually accepted. In 1910, the first local Father’s Day was held. It wasn’t until 1924 that President Calvin Coolidge "made it a national event." Then, in 1966, President Johnson signed a proclamation declaring the third Sunday of June as Father's Day. President Nixon made it law in 1972.

It's hard to imagine a time when the idea of Father's Day was mocked and dismissed as ridiculous. If it weren't for the tenacity of a grateful daughter, it may never have come to pass.