Becoming a dad for the first time is a moment that I’ll never forget. For me, it was 2009 and unfortunately what should’ve been a connecting moment between me and my wife, was the exact opposite. For a majority of men, I’m sure that juncture in time – that instant in which you both looked at the EPT test or…
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I can’t explain the cause behind it, perhaps it’s my part obsessive – part controlling nature, but over the last 8 years of parenting I’ve always felt anxiety. In the weeks and days leading up to my daughter being born, I’d wake up in the morning feeling so tense. It was like someone could bounce a quarter off my shoulders…
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Back in the early 1980’s, when I was 5 or 6 years old, my parents had finished construction on the ground floor of their very first home. My mom was pregnant with my brother and they were anxious to move in. We would live downstairs as construction continued in order to finish the upstairs bedrooms and bathroom. For more than…
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Depending on which part of the country you live in, I’m fairly certain that I’m not alone in saying that I feel like my kids have gone to school for a collective 6 days since mid-December. Whether it’s been because of Christmas or Hanukkah break, New Year celebrations, snow days or the inevitable quarantine-inspired day off due to the flu…
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Thank you Ellio’s Pizza for sponsoring this post. Visit your local retailer to pick up your own Ellio’s Pizza for a pizza night in! The time between Thanksgiving and Christmas season always seems like it’s going a million miles per hour. On the home front, if you decorate anything like we do, you’re tasked with going throughout the rooms and…
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