The Daddy Diary
Musings on Babies, Bulldogs, and Beer
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The Daddy Diary 2: Game Day
Much like Lucy and Charlie Brown with the football, surgery has been called off at the last minute twice. We’ve run up to the ball only to have it pulled away as we fell flat on our backs. Maybe that’s how I threw my… Continue Reading “The Daddy Diary 2: Game Day”
The Daddy Diary 2: A CHARGE to Keep I Have
Anytime you buy a lottery ticket, you can see your chances. When you look at the odds, there is always a “one in” listed before a number that contains the same number of digits as my current Body Mass Index after eating nothing but… Continue Reading “The Daddy Diary 2: A CHARGE to Keep I Have”
The Daddy Diary 2: Cut the Russian
If you find that you are routinely getting too much sleep, having a child in the cardiac ICU will take care of that. You get the joyous experience of waking up 13 times a night mentally playing out every possible scenario even though you… Continue Reading “The Daddy Diary 2: Cut the Russian”
The Daddy Diary 2: The Heart of Rock and Roll
I recently read “Father Elijah” by Michael O’Brien. It’s a novel about a group of Catholic Priests and Cardinals at the time of Apocalypse. Despite the fascinating plotline, characters, and backstory, my main take away was: these guys prayed all the time. I mean… Continue Reading “The Daddy Diary 2: The Heart of Rock and Roll”
The Daddy Diary 2: Tom Petty was Close
You take it on faithYou take it to the heartThe waiting is the hardest part Hearing that your baby girl has a severe heart defect is an emotional punch to the gut. Hearing that she has four heart defects is like taking a line… Continue Reading “The Daddy Diary 2: Tom Petty was Close”
The Daddy Diary 2: The Correlations
A positive correlation exists between the number of medical staff in your daughter’s hospital room and your resting heart rate. When I walked in the first thing in the morning and saw six people in scrubs hovering around my daughter, my resting heart rate… Continue Reading “The Daddy Diary 2: The Correlations”
The Daddy Diary 2: A Perfect Pair
Don’t you love how some things just belong together? Chocolate and Peanut butter. Hamburgers and French fries. A glass of red wine and another glass of red wine. One Direction concerts and boredom. Jerry Jones and unconventional grammar.
The Daddy Diary 2: Leave it to my Little Girl
Leave it to my little girl to decide to join the world three weeks early. And leave it to her to break Mommy’s water just as Daddy sat down at a pub to join some friends. Committing the ultimate fatherly sacrifice, I left my… Continue Reading “The Daddy Diary 2: Leave it to my Little Girl”
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