#DADuary Week One
Okay, so I am now a week (almost two!) late, but that seems to be in keeping with my schedule lately. DADuary Week 1’s question was: Who or what has caused you to become the type of dad you are? Continue reading
Okay, so I am now a week (almost two!) late, but that seems to be in keeping with my schedule lately. DADuary Week 1’s question was: Who or what has caused you to become the type of dad you are? Continue reading
I learned an important lesson this month. Taking off from work the week before a major holiday is not relaxing. I had an opportunity to take some time off as I switched jobs and thought that this would be a Continue reading
Last week was a busy week. I had three events in the evening that kept me out well past when the boys went to bed. They were good about it, but that didn’t assuage the daddy-guilt of missing story time Continue reading
So, the holidays can be stressful, no? The family, the cooking, traveling, trips to the ER… Yeah. We headed down to Virginia for the week. K’s family was hosting and K was going to do the cooking for Thanksgiving. We Continue reading
Dad! The squirrels ate my jack-o-lantern’s face!
Rather than recreate cycle of the weekend, here are the highlights that help explain the world I live in: Saturday afternoon: C (age 7): Dad, I’m bored! Dad: Only boring people get bored. M (age 5): Yeah, I’m bored too. Continue reading
The deed is done. Two larger than life buckets of candy are sitting on the dining room table. They have been inventoried and their contents committed to memory. Yesterday was our prep day. K found an post on AlphaMom about an Angry Continue reading
It’s kind of funny when you think about it, but every parent has an innate dread of “the question.” We all know it’s coming, we’d all prefer to be the one who answers it and yet, we all freeze up Continue reading
So many things have happened since my last post. Writer’s block, mostly. But, also, the boys started school, soccer restarted, we hired a new nanny (a manny, in fact), I travelled a ridiculous amount for work and I have started Continue reading
Son, Seven years ago today, your mother and I were in shock. Okay, I was in shock, your mother was hungry and exhausted. You were late (which has been a trend since…), the family had been waiting 28 hours for Continue reading