On Father's Day, the early bird gets – what else? – breakfast
On Father’s Day, the early bird gets – what else? – breakfast
0 Comments | Florida Times Union, Jun 12, 2010 | by Jackie Rooney
Before you know it Sunday, June 20, will be here, the day to celebrate all the fathers, husbands, grandfathers and other father figures in your life. No. 1 daughter and I are going to take her father, my spouse, the Binmeister, out for breakfast, his favorite meal of the day.
I married “Mr. Breakfast.” I didn’t realize it until the morning after the nuptials when he leaped out of bed and cheerfully declared, “bacon, eggs, toast and coffee-yes!”
“It’s 7 a.m.,” I mumbled into my pillow. “Don’t we get to brush our teeth first? I can’t deal with this. Is it too late for an annulment?”
“Pancakes with butter and syrup, yum,” he tried to tempt me. “Biscuits and gravy – maybe, grits?”
“Grits? We live in New York,” I said. “Go back to sleep, you can’t get grits here.”
Forty-three years later, I’m no longer averse to the first meal of the day – just to cooking it and being cheerful at any hour before 9 a.m. An old Irish proverb says, “Marriages are all happy; it’s having breakfast together that causes all the trouble.”
Life is full of little compromises. So, Monday through Friday, the man I wed is a mild-mannered (on a good day) businessman who makes his own oatmeal and coffee. But on the weekends, he becomes “Mr. Breakfast” – and makes his own bacon and eggs. Then we moved to the land of grits and biscuits and gravy and he discovered nirvana. Unfortunately, he married Ms. Out-to-Lunch. Hmmm … perhaps I should restate that. Nevertheless, out to lunch I go gathering social news around the Beaches.
– On June 4, The Florida Times-Union presented the 41st annual EVE luncheon at the Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront. About 525 people attended the affair that recognized 12 women from Florida’s First Coast for achievements in education, volunteer service and employment, hence EVE. All finalists received plaques and one from each category was awarded a prestigious golden apple. The winners and event were reported in Sunday’s Times-Union. However, it’s noteworthy for denizens of the beach that Donna Orender of Jacksonville Beach and Carolee Bertisch of Ponte Vedra Beach were at the head table.
The Times-Union’s first female publisher, Lucy Talley, was the event’s emcee
syrup for coffee
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