Tag: fatherhood
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On Summer ’23
Boys, I’ve said this before, but I think sometimes posts don’t need to be anything more than “this is what your life was like in this moment in time.” So, this post will hopefully be a snapshot of what you’re both into and some of the fun things we’ve done recently. I’m writing this in…
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On Soccer
Boys, By the time you read this, you’ll know that soccer isn’t my main squeeze when it comes to sports. I played a few years when I was a little older than you, Reagan, but my bag was always baseball, golf, and (watching) football. That said, when push came to shove, I did take up…
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On Sanity
Boys, Websters defines the word “insanity” as “your two year old constantly screams at you the phrase ‘Koen (or “I”) do it’ while your oldest son constantly screams that he ‘can’t do it,” often times when referencing putting on clothes, riding a bike, or staying in his room for more than six second once he’s…
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On Reagan’s Only Child Trip
Boys, This one will be mostly about Reagan because this past week, we dressed you up like an only child and took you to FLA to see your grandparents. Koen, we had every intention of bringing you too, but you caught a little bug a few days before we left, and we decided to leave…
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On Golf Is
Boys, Golf is a lot of things to our family. Golf is the first thing I heard about your mom when someone who was setting us up told me her family had a golf course they played league night at once a week. Golf is the thing that bonded us, since the test to her…
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On Reagan
Reagan, This one is for you. I think when we’re all older and we look back at this time in our lives, we’re going to remember that I was Koen’s person. With that, he demands a lot of my attention, so I don’t always give you as much of my time as I’d like to…
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On the Trenches: Part 1
And it was a grey morning and they all wondered how they would fare…
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On The Butterfly Experiment
Boys, A few weeks ago, your mom ordered caterpillars online that would become butterflies. They arrived and your mom quickly removed herself from any responsibility and further interaction with the caterpillars and left it up to us to ensure that life would ensue. She would, however, maintain a seat on the board so far as…
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On 30A and Our First Family Vacation
Boys, Sometimes it’s easy to get into a rut when you journal/blog/write to your kids, where you think that if you don’t have something profound to say, then you just don’t say anything at all. But I need to remember that I can just talk to you and not have to have it be about…
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On To Koen
Koen, You are an amazing, wonderful, funny, sometimes psychotic, other times love magnetic, absolute honor-to-be-your-dad kind of kid. There is so much I love about you. Your personality has exploded in the past few months. You love your family, and your dog. You will walk up to Rogue and tuck your head into him, just…
From Ryan to Reagan and Koen 