Take Your Child to Work Day!

For as long as I can remember, I always went with my dad to "take your daughter to work day" (and then they changed it to "take your child to work day"). He works at Lockheed Martin headquarters in Bethesda, MD, as where my husband has worked too for the past five years. My dad has worked there since I was two years old, so he knows just about everyone, although a lot has changed, especially after 9/11. I remember when I was pretty young, maybe late elementary school or early middle school when there would only be a handful of kids attending with their parents and then quickly it became a BIG deal, with lots of kids. They had activities and lots of fun things for kids to do, but I pretty much always wanted to stay with my dad. 

It was always such a highlight each spring to go with my dad for the day. I remember planning out what I was going to wear and having to get up really early to go with him. I always got to wear my own badge, which was super cool when you are ten! The highlight of the day was getting to order anything I wanted for breakfast and lunch from the big cafeteria. It was always so great and then getting to eat in the dinning room, it was quite a big deal. Having candy bars from the snack machine, or having some of the sweet ladies give out candy on their desks...those little things, ya know.

I love having those memories with my dad and being able to go to work with him on certain occasions.

This year I tried to bribe my dad and Tim to take the girls with them to work and they both literally laughed at me! I was hoping to get a day off...Haha! Maybe one year they will enjoy going with Papa and Daddy...it won't be too bad to take all five girls! HAHA...right, like that will ever happen!!! One day, hopefully, when they are all bigger they will get to create those same memories with their Daddy!