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A Purposely Low Key 3rd Birthday Party
3 years old. Dear Jack, For your last two birthdays, Mommy and I didn’t keep things simple. We combined both friends and family to have an official birthday party, each time. Even though our “family...
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3rd Birthday Monster Truck Road Trip: Canyon Land Park
3 years. Dear Jack, On the 2nd half of your monster truck road trip in the Toyota Tundra to celebrate your 3rd birthday, we stopped by an old abandoned amusement park, called Canyon Land Park, right...
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Can We Just Be Open And Honest With Each Other? (Part 1)
3 years. Dear Jack, I feel like there’s this stereotype about fathers, that especially as they get older, they tend to have less of an open door policy with their sons. And I get it. By the time the...
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YOLO: You’re Only Little Once
3 years, 2 months. Dear Jack, While we were in Alabama last weekend celebrating your Auntie Dana’s 30th birthday, I heard her say something clever. It was an interesting, parenting-related spin on a...
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I Want You To Go Back To Being A Daddy
3 years, 2 months. Dear Jack, During the holidays last month, there was a day where I had to work, but you and Mommy were home. I didn’t realize it until here recently, but I found these pictures that...
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And Now Your Best Friend Is Moving Away…
3 years, 2 months. Dear Jack, For the past two weekends, we have spent time with Sophie and her parents… Because, you see, well… Sophie’s moving from Nashville to Alabama in a couple of weeks. I...
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The Joy Of Wandering Around Aimlessly As A Kid
3 years, 3 months. Dear Jack, This week I happened to read a really cool article that is going viral right now, called “Things I Did As A Kid (But My Kids Won’t)“, by Amber Dusick. She explains how...
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My Kid’s First True Need For Band-Aids
3 years, 4 months. Dear Jack, While you’ve been enjoying the splendor of Band-Aids for quite a while now, or as you refer to them, “tattoos,” it wasn’t truly until this past weekend that you really...
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Boys Grow Up To Become Men Who Move Away
3 years, 5 months. Dear Jack, When I was growing up, I never minded the small town I grew up in. It was all I knew. Life was good, easy, and comfortable. My parents did everything right. But around the...
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Man, I Really Used To Be A Cornball (And Still Might Be!)
3 years, 6 months. Dear Jack, It was three years ago today that with great excitment, I saw my WordPress daddy blog, Dad From Day One, get rebooted and placed on a much broader stage, as The Dadabase...
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