Our second baby will soon be born. Time for perspective.

Then one day I was on Facebook reading updates (as I tend to obsessively do) and I saw another friend from St. Mike’s, Denise, post something about “Tommy coming home.” She usually posts pics of her two year old son – which I always love to see but t I admittedly didn’t know much else about what was going on in her life these days. That day I did look a little deeper and realized that Tommy was her husband and he was going to be home from Afghanistan for two weeks. I immediately got teared up.

Our Baby’s Gender: The Answer We Refuse to Know

Bixie is due in late October, you see. At any point we could simply tear open the envelope to find out how exactly our lives will be changing. Pink or blue? Dainty or rugged? Pig tails or pickup trucks?

Madness On Little Squam Lake: Our Summer Vacation

Summer vacation at Little Squam Lake with lots of babies.

Dadblast Author Sickened by Domino’s pizza.

Domino’s pizza poisoned me. I haven’t written about this yet because thinking about Domino’s has made me so ill that committing words to paper, or the thought of doing so, has made me involuntarily upchuck in my own mouth. You could call this blog post slanderous. You might accuse me of being reckless. But the [...]

Big milestone on Dadblast – Gus turns one year old today!

A year ago Bixie was in the hospital, just hours away from the delivery of our first child, a little boy named Gus. We were so nervous. So thrilled. So hopeful! In the intervening months we’ve received quite an education about what it means to be parents, full-time, all the time. And our reward has [...]

Mommy Monday – Bixie Likes Dadblast Author!

This is a huge week in our house. Parry’s first father’s day was yesterday, Gus’ first birthday is on Thursday and my bro and his wife are going to have their little one any second now. I’m beyond excited about all of these things – but it also makes me think just how crazy this [...]

Jumping the Gun on Mother’s Day

I jolted awake a couple nights ago at the realization that this Mother’s Day isn’t just about my own mother. Shocking revelation: for the first time, the woman lying next to me is ALSO a mother! I mean, I obviously understand she’s the mother of my son. But when I think about Mother’s day I [...]

Rudeness: Over-the-Counter Edition

Normally this space is devoted to good things about my young family, but today I thought I’d excuse myself from unicorns and rainbows and focus on something that I suspect annoys lots of folks. Crappy customer service. Not over the phone, but in person. Yesterday morning I’m standing in line at Starbucks and a counter [...]

Expecting a 2nd child. It’s different this time.

It’s different this time. Bixie’s second pregnancy is humming along nicely. She’s already past the morning sickness phase (though she gets hers in the evening). She tires more easily, too, but you’d barely know she was pregnant save for the fact she’s beginning to show just a little. That, and she abstains from that evening [...]

News Every Daddy Blogger Loves to Share: My Wife is Pregnant Again!

I look up and suddenly my smile freezes. Everything slows down. My senses are on high alert. I focus on the details as I scramble to process them: at the end of her arm is a hand. Clutched in that hand is what appears to be a plastic thermometer of some sort. Inside the window on that device is a clear and bold PLUS sign.

What does a plus sign mean? Every muscle in my body is tight. Wait, that’s not a thermometer. Where have I seen this befo — OH MY GOD!