Yep – Just another blog…and the 'G' is silent.
Dear Freya, Today is December 24, 2016 – Christmas Eve – and we will be celebrating your first Christmas this year. I cannot express adequately in words just how happy we are to have you here with us to do so, but to say that we are thrilled would be an over simplification of said […]
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The other evening when I was walking upstairs around 7:55pm, getting ready to put Freya down for the night, I heard a strange sound. More on that in a minute. So, we go upstairs and get her bath ready, which she enjoyed a lot. She is learning how to splash a bit now, which is […]
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Dear Freya, Today is November 7, 2016 – a Monday. I am currently sitting in seat 4D of a Boeing 757, on Delta flight DL952. I am traveling from Seattle to Atlanta, on my way to Orlando, FL. This is the week that I (normally) attend the IT Nation technology conference. This is a week […]
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Whether you are a New Dad already, or an Expectant Dad, I would like to congratulate you and your partner on this momentous life-changing event. I hope this New Dad’s Survival Guide is helpful to you. So first off, Congratulations! I’m no expert, but I have survived thus far in my path in Fatherhood (3 […]
Continue ReadingI wrote the letter below, the evening of August 31st, the day after Freya was born. Dear Freya, The day you were born was a very busy day. Your Mom woke me up at 5:30am, to tell me that her water had broken. We proceed to call the maternity ward at Langley Memorial Hospital (LMH), […]
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Stardate 94301.29 Sleep still proves evasive, and yet as i type this (ever so slowly) with one hand, as the other is holding someone while she fussily sleeps – I wouldn’t trade this exhausted haze for the world. I took some time this morning to put together a YouTube video, and upload it online, with […]
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Status: Tired & Overjoyed Last Monday, August 29th, I sat down at the desk in our home office, logged onto our PC, and started to write a Blog Post, titled “Pregnancy Update: T minus 22 Days”. I started writing about the weekend that we had, celebrating my Sister’s Birthday, seeing our niece Georgia, and the […]
Continue ReadingI was asked the other day, “Why do you blog? The internet & media platforms are changing, and in many ways blogging is becoming something from yesterday.” I don’t disagree with this statement. While written word itself changes slowly overtime, the platforms by which we communicate with one another changes much faster. It wasn’t that […]
Continue ReadingTo say that the week is going according to plan, would not be accurate. It’s only Wednesday, but yet I feel like it should be Saturday already. Heather has her vacation booked for ahead of her maternity leave, which leaves her with only 2 full weeks of work left, which is good. Things are going […]
Continue ReadingI had been struggling a lot with bringing together a gift for my Dad this Father’s Day, as mentioned in a previous post. I ended up settling on a gift of a letter, from our yet-to-be-born child, which I have included below. Dear Bestefar, We haven’t met yet, but I wanted to write you a […]
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