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The first year with a kid can be a challenge for a dad. It's hard to connect with a little baby like a mother does, we don't have the...

Not too long ago I was toying with writing a 'cooking as therapy' post. Over the last few years I've been taking over more and more of...

I haven't always been good about going to the doctor for routine, preventative visits, but I have made it in twice in the last two years....

With our first two children, the boys, we had few problems with sleeping through the night. #1 from birth was an incredible sleeper and...

I often get annoyed with our eldest son, too often. There are other circumstances, to be sure, but one type of interaction has really...

Summer is over and it's the school year again. Before now that didn't mean a lot, even when #1 was in preschool four days a week that's...

I never did a follow-up for potty training boy #2 and that's warranted. Surely I don't remember everything from doing this with #1, but...

Our eldest son is going to kindergarten this fall and that's the earliest you can play actual baseball. So it's been tee-ball time for...

It's summer and we're back from our annual pilgrimage to see my wife's sister's family on the Last Frontier. I've written in the past...

Introduced through work (I believe), my wife is a big fan of Clifton Strengths, previously called 'Strength Finder.' After taking an...

Our kids have always had friends, of one kind or another, though until recently they've mostly been through friends of my wife and I, or...

I rarely, if at all, write about my sports fandom, because I can't imagine it matters to anyone else, especially when using this longer...

Last week we started potty training our #2 child. It was probably the longest week of my life. This is one of those parts of parenting...

About two weeks ago I was working on a new post. Wix (the site hosting this), when going to upload a picture said I was over my limit for...

Less than two years ago I wrote about my first couple weeks home alone, during the week when my wife was back at work, with two kids. I...

Last week it took a few extra days and 15 ballots to elect a Speaker of the House for the new Congress, something unusual but not...

Our #2 child is now two years old and he's, up to this point, not been a talker. He came out of the womb sucking on two fingers on his...

I don't think we, as parents, want to have a favorite kid. Nothing good comes of that. Ideally we resist the urge and treat our offspring...

My last post bemoaned a weird stage where we were ready for a baby but she wasn't ready to join us yet. Well, to our relief, our little...

Kid #1 was born a day or two after his due date. Kid #2 was unexpectedly early, by more than a week. So with the expected arrival of kid...