A Daddy Blog

I want to give a proud shout out to all my fellow dads commemorating my boy’s first official home-run!  It happened Tuesday night at the semi-final game for his little league (he’s eight).

The first pitch was high. He swatted at it.

“Come on! Keep your eye on the ball and swing hard!”

Second pitch. In the ground, too low. He didn’t swing.

“Good boy! Good eye! Good eye!”

Third pitch. SMACK!

As if in slow motion, I stand and throw my arms up as I see the ball sail towards left field. The roar of jumping parents and teammates almost too faint to hear.

I turn to see the umpire with his finger in the air doing circles. It’s a homer!!

“Get out there boys!,” I yell to the boys in the dugout. “Go give him a high five!”

I’m overcome with emotion and pride. My eyes tear.

“That’s MY son,” I whisper to myself.

“Way to go, buddy!”

All the best

I messed up my daily writing commitment for a month, again! I’m dealing with a wife medical issue and yesterday was a bad day.

Maybe next month…

All the best

I think I’m much like other dads. We like taking pictures and videos of our kids growing up, their special events, family vacations, etc.  It’s normal. It’s good. We need to archive the memories and leave something for our grandkids to see.

BUT, there comes a point where you realize you have well over a thousand digital pictures and videos. What do you do?

Do you just keep them on your computer hard drive? Do you put them on CDs? Do you print them out?

I’m struggling with this now. What do you guys do?

All the best

Not much to say. Woke up at 4 am to catch a flight to Mexico and worked all day. It’s 11:21 back home and I’m exhausted.

All the best

Off to Mexico bright and early tomorrow making today a short day with preparations.

Wanted to check in and tag a post to keep up with my commitment to post daily.  Of course this is more for me and my discipline than for your reading enjoyment.

All the best

This is one of the saddest news I read recently: Parents fight over which gang their toddler will join.  Are you kidding me!!???

How are ever going to break the cycle of violence if we cannot educate parents on how to be parents?

All the best

Well, it’s happened again. I’ve gone and updated the Definitive Daddy Blog List with five more daddy’s out there. Thanks to all of you that made me aware of them.

Those added are:

1. Inn of the Last Home - a blog by a daddy really about almost everything.
2. Six-fingered Monkey - another good blog about life by a dad.
3. One Dad’s Life - close in name to mine, this blog focuses on being a dad.
4. Daddy Dan - another excellent daddy-focused blog. Thanks for the mention, btw!
5. Mitch McDad’s World - zany (in a good way) doesn’t begin to explain it. Go take a look.

We are now up to 189 daddy blogs.  Please, if you know any that are not there, let me know.

All the best