Time to be a dad
I hope you aren’t too full from your meal, or on your way to some fine dining right now. You can probably guess from the title what this is about. Trust your instinct. Look, I’m not waking up every day thinking of ways to upset people’s appetites. But these are parts of babies’ lives, hence…
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One of the perks of having a kid is that I get to cherish her every single baby step toward adulthood. The most recent one is her effort to join the league of solid-eaters. It definitely wasn’t easy getting her started, and even to this point, we are not yet over the bumpy part of…
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Almost 20 years ago (wow, has it been that long already?), I faced one of the toughest decisions in my life… picking a major. I, a teenager without any benefits of experience, prescience, or meaningful level of critical thinking, had to make a decision that would in many ways dictate the course of my life….
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Oh… aren’t babies always full of surprises? The good ones, the bad ones, and the smelly ones. I mean, they’ve got to do at least some things to keep us on our toes, right? Otherwise, parenting would just be too easy. My daughter has also been hard at work sprinkling delightful surprises in our lives…
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It has come to my attention that I may have painted too gloomy a picture of parenthood, and by extension, my little girl. That, let me assure you, is neither my intention nor the reality. Perhaps I don’t say this enough (or ever), but I do enjoy being a dad. There, it’s on the record….
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Around the two-month mark of a baby’s life, there comes a magical moment before which life was a lot like holding down a fort during a zombie apocalypse. Swarms of attacks swept through every orifice of the stronghold. There was barely enough ammunition to go around and clearly not enough imagination to predict the possible…
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I’m happy to report that I can finally laugh about my agony during those first two months of my daughter’s life. All those miserable memories have evaporated to the point I almost don’t remember what the big deal was. Perhaps I’ve been acclimated to this lifestyle. Perhaps the fresh wounds have turned into scars. Or…
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June 9, 2022 Spoiler Alert Since the title gives it away, there’s no need to slow walk to it. This is it, the culmination of days of agony, delay, and frustration, the “Act V” release of 60-hour-long suspense, the moment that a roller coaster carriage slows its ascension and transitions to a nose-dive. Our life…
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June 9, 2022 Waking to a Nightmare Ever since a stick told us that my wife was pregnant, we had been living the days of anticipation. Every change of the baby bump, every sneak peek of our daughter’s delicate heartbeat, every unfathomable purchase, and every sacrificial change of our place set our hearts alight and…
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