Rebuilding Rob

Welcome to another edition of “Rob Revisits” where I repost a blog entry (usually) from today’s date. This gives me an opportunity to look back to “where I was when” ; think about where I am today and reflect on how I got from there to here.

Here’s a post from 7 years ago today (wow, has it been that long?). It started out as me talking about how X2 and I celebrated Valentine’s Day and turned into some deep thoughts on being a son and being a father.

It’s funny because I’m older now, wiser; and yet somehow I still don’t feel like I’m any more prepared for “being Dad”. That I think is the secret: none of us ever feel like were ready. We have this myth of our parents built up in our heads. We just assume that they are mature, responsible and have all the answers (at least the good parents). But the truth is, none of us really know exactly what we’re doing. There really is no instruction book. Our parents had the same hopes, fears concerns and anxieties that we do. They never voiced these concerns to us; so we just assume that they had it more together than we do.

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• Sunday is borrowed time
• Teacher Armor and the Saturday Clearing
• The Extra Day: A Ten-Year Memory
• Of Training Wheels and Christmas Lights
• Charity Starts at Home (And I’m Back in My Childhood One)

The articles “Picking up the Reigns” and “Rob Revisits: Picking up the Reigns” originally appeared on Rebuilding Rob.