This is the final weekend of summer and so we find ourselves once more upon the edge of the changing of the seasons. Change is good, for life is little more than our ability to adapt to our ever evolving situation but it can also be cumbersome. With change comes new challenges and obstacles and hardships. Change is a battle
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Today I did a thing that I am unaccustomed to, I prayed. I held hands with a complete stranger, she lead me in prayer and it was awesome. It was awkward for me but like I said, I am unaccustomed to it. That said, prayer is something I need in my life right now. A woman came into the restaurant
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Parenting is not a color by the numbers situation. You will color outside the lines, your colors will smear together and at times it may seem like an artistically, unsalvageable mess. While I can’t actually verify that this is true for every other parent; I can say that these are the only parents I would wish to be friends with.
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Life will become obnoxiously real if you aren’t careful. This is not to imply that life is somehow a joke but rather to illustrate the fact that our brains are often our worst enemies and one must remember to keep it in check, preferably with humor. Tonight my oldest son had a brush with death, or so he thought. I
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The parenting bubble is so real, it’s scary. Life is all diapers and late night wellness checks and climbing the staircase of healthy child development. Then one day your babies aren’t babies. What is a parent to do in a post-baby existence? Of course the point of parenting is to raise functional adults. And raising young children is an arduous
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While my wife was pregnant with our middle son, we took a trip to the Denver zoo. Our oldest boy and our only boy at the time was two years old. What I remember from that trip was mostly how hot it was but also that we bought him a gift at the gift shop. It was a stuffed tiger
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Firstly, it is with great joy that I announce a small update to this blog; a dash of structure. While I believe that I could ramble on endlessly about my experiences with fatherhood, I fear that without at least a framework of direction that this blog will be nothing more than my ramblings. I would like to at least attempt
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