The First Day Back

Today marked my wife’s first day back to work from her maternity leave. It goes without saying that I had a good deal of anxiety heading into today. I stayed up late last night due to the anxiety, plus I was compulsively refreshing the Pepsi website to see how CureJM would fare in the August Refresh Everything contest.

Life as a status symbol?

Towards the end of April I was contacted by a writer who was going to be doing an article on stay at home dads for Marie Claire magazine. Since I’m interested in doing whatever I can to paint stay at home dads in a positive light, I accepted the interview request.

I’m in love with another woman

(It’s ok, my wife is totally cool with it)

Do you feel like I do?

On Wednesday morning, as little man and I were driving to his Gymboree class, I was scanning the presets in the swagger wagon looking for something to energize me. Being the classic rock kind of guy that I am I stopped channel surfing as soon as I heard Frampton come alive.

There isn’t always a solution

As men we are programmed to be problem solvers. Most of the time if you come to a guy with a problem, the first ideas that pop into our heads are ways to solve it for you. About two and a half years ago I found myself in a position where there was no solution [...]

Implementing a Toddler Defense

With football season here I thought it would also be a good opportunity to brush up on some toddler defensive schemes and the keys to their implementation. Some of these defenses are designed for close quarters containment of a single toddler, while others are more suitable for coverage in more open environments involving any number [...]

To my son on your first birthday

Today’s post is an open letter to my son on the occasion of his first birthday. I had been diligently writing him letters from the moment we found out my wife was pregnant with him. Unfortunately, we had our house broken into and my old laptop with all those letters was among the things we [...]

Emergency rooms and milk proteins

Every day with my little man is an adventure. Whether we are just playing on the floor, entering intense negotiations over nap time or just out and about there is always something new to explore and discover. Most of our adventures are a lot of fun and generally result in him flashing his big toothless [...]

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