This week Annie starts back to working at the office four days a week and working from home one day a week…oh the terror. I’m kidding and not kidding, all at the same time. This work-from-home-dad thing is still sinking in. I never thought I would be able to do it and to be … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2013
Sammy and the Six Hour Car Ride
They say life is an adventure, right? So why not put a 5 month old in a car for 6 hours and drive to Palm Springs? We successfully took Sammy to Monterey a month or so ago and that was a 2.5 hour car ride each way, in which he did amazing. So how hard could 6 hours be? The goal … [Read more...]
Do You Always Like Your Kid?
My answer is "no", but I know some people like to freak out over wording. I can say that I do, and always will love Sammy but I’ll tell you right now, yesterday when I took him to a couple of job sites with me and he cried…but mostly screamed…for 45 minutes in my truck with me … [Read more...]
Society and Its Fiery Hate Balls
There has been a lot of chatter lately about women, children, and careers. I know I have discussed it before on here and elsewhere but I wanted to add some more of my thoughts on this since I feel my perspective is relatively unique. … [Read more...]
Parenting, Politics, and Religion
Did I make you grimace a bit? Those three words instantly set off certain emotions. From my perspective they are three subjects that people become very passionate about and often get overheated about. We all know what happens in a room of people when you start talking politics … [Read more...]
The Five Month Anniversary
Okay, it’s not really an anniversary I suppose but it is Sammy’s 5 month “birthday” if you will. It’s interesting when these things come up because we can look back and see how much he’s changed from month one to month two to now. Some of the changes I see now are: … [Read more...]
What’s More Important, Spouse or Child?
Before I express my opinion I will say that the only reason I am is because I have recently heard about some group of people that got their panties in a twist when a mother said her husband was a priority over her child. I find it extremely fascinating that there are people out … [Read more...]
This Is Why I’m Tired!
Yes, they told us...they told us that we'd better get all the sleep we could before the baby arrived because we'd never sleep again! We laughed at them. Why? Well, for one, because we all know that you can't store up sleep in a bank and cash it in after a sleepless night of … [Read more...]