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Where Have You Been: Part One

Hey there team. It’s possible (but unlikely) you noticed that I haven’t posted anything here the last couple weeks. That’s because life has been like, for real busy. And not just stay at home dad busy either. I did actual things. With people!

Let’s begin two Fridays ago. It was the start of what was going to be a huge weekend. Sunday was full of things to celebrate. Not only was it Linn’s first Mother’s Day, but Carolina was going to be baptized as well. Best (most stressful) of all, we were reluctantly  enthusiastically planning to squeeze both of our families into our cozy living space designed for two and a half. My parents were the first to arrive. (Guest count for our tiny apartment:2) They hadn’t been to visit in a couple of months and were more than a little excited to see how much Carolina had changed and to see all of her new tricks. (Not like, tricks we’ve been teaching her for some type of bizarre baby circus or anything, just stuff she has learned to do over the last 8 weeks. Regular baby stuff, I swear) Continue reading →

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A Day In The Life

A parents job is never done. I’ve begun to understand the true meaning of this cliché over the last couple of weeks. Linn has been working 30 hour shifts lately, made worse by one of her pregnant patients giving birth in the middle of the night this weekend. I know this isn’t fun for her in any conceivable way but since I’m the one driving this blog, I’m pretty sure this post is going to focus on how her unbearable work schedule affects me. Continue reading →

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Raising A Music Lover

I know this clip isn’t exactly new so I’m sorry if you’ve seen it before but I just found it recently and it really made me chuckle. If you haven’t seen it, the baby girl in the video is crying, the dad turns on Notorious BIG’s Big Pappa and the kid calms down almost immediately. There are two things that immediatly come to mind while I watch this. First, obviously this little girl has already developed exceptional taste in music. And second, she should probably keep an eye out for any little west coast baby bangers rolling past her crib in a ’64 Impala. Continue reading →

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One Month Down The Road: What I’ve Learned

IMG_0859Well, Linn has been back to work for one full month now. Thirty One days of me being the primary caregiver for an infant. All three of us survived, if not excelled. I look back on all of the things have changed and realized that not much has changed. Carolina may be accomplishing new things every day but the long and short of it is that she still pretty much hangs out and commands both my attention and my affection. Just because there have been no seismic shifts in our household since the day that Linn loaded up her computer bag and headed off to work doesn’t mean we haven’t learned anything. Here is a short list of some things I discovered during my first month of being a stay at home dad. Continue reading →

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Why Being A Dad Is Not So Different Than Being A Restaurant Manager

It’s been three months since I left my job as a restaurant manager. A lot of people ask me if I miss it or what the best/worst part of being a stay at home dad is. The answer to the first question is an emphatic no. As for the best and worst parts of the job? It turns out that they are not that different from the best and worst parts of my previous position. Continue reading →

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Curious Life Decisions: I Went For A Run

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When I was in college I liked to joke that the only time running made sense outside of sports was if it was “away from the cops” (which, if my mom is reading this, I totally never did). I just couldn’t comprehend why an otherwise rational person would subject themselves to that type of punishment. I knew people who claimed that they liked to run, they would talk about the “runners high”. To me, they sounded delusional. Obviously, these people, these… runners, would say literally anything to get one more person to run with them and had come up with this outrageous lie to do just that. Thankfully, I saw through their act. It was clear to me that only reason they tried to convince other people to run is so they would have others to share their misery. It was some type of masochistic cult. I saw no other possible scenario. Continue reading →

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The Nerd Gene

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I learned once that a writer should strive to gain their reader’s attention starting with very first line by using some type of attention grabber. Here it goes… Newborn babies are adorable. How was that? Yeah, I guess I’m still working on it… I mean it though, newborn babies are just adorable. I love mine deeply and spend the best part of each day tending to her needs and making sure she is happy but she doesn’t exactly, you know, actually DO anything. Sure, she is getting better at head control and threatening to roll over pretty soon but the fact remains that most of the time she just kind of sits there being cute. Continue reading →