Category: parenthood
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The Kid Goes Digital
Yesterday, I stepped into the digital dating domain and bought a 3 month membership on match.com. I set up an account earlier this week, but a user can’t do much beyond window shopping without buying some kind of membership. Aye, there’s the rub. Of course, the fact that a few…
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Counterstrike
With the Boy’s Easter break about 6 weeks away, I called the STBX last night to discuss visitation. Here’s a paraphrasing of said conversation – to the best of my memory: Me: So the Boy’s Easter break is coming up. Under the separation agreement that you had written up, I…
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Not a Disney World Dad, but that’s okay.
Getting snow on Christmas Eve was just icing on the proverbial cake. I could not have asked for anything more.
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a war of attrition
I haven’t put up an entry in 10 days. The impending holiday and no classes has left me with a lot of down-time (but I got an entry or two that i’m working on). Anyway, the down-time has allowed me some time to go through a “purging phase” and a…
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flipping the script
As the calendar creeps ever-closer to Halloween, it has occurred to me that I need to start making travel plans for the holidays, either for my son, myself, or for both of us. About a month or so ago, I suggested to the SBTX that we alternate visitations for Thanksgiving…
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it was 12 years ago today…
I thought I had it all figured out. That is, I thought I knew what i was going to write about today. I even started drafting an “open letter to the soon-to-be-ex” that I would post today. For those of you who don’t know, today is me and the STBX’s…
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youth gone wild
I got a call from my son at about 2:40 today. He told me that he got into a fight at school, threw a pencil at another kid. to make matters worse, the school called the STBX so she would pick him up from school. As I talked to The…
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Goodbyes suck
At the gate in Myrtle Beach about 1 hour ago, the STBX had the temerity to be “so happy in to see him she had cried“. She should try not seeing him for a month, with the prospect of not seeing him again for 3 or 4 months. He started…
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The road back
A father-son trip up North takes an emotional turn, highlighting the tender, exhausting reality of navigating a new separation through a five-year-old’s eyes. A raw look at parenting, patience, and the hard truths of starting over.
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from the lioness’s den
“Home is where you hang your hat” Daniel LaRusso The Karate Kid, part II I’m blogging this morning from South Carolina. My stomping grounds of the last eight years. Two days ago, I made the trip down South to pick up my son for a week-long visit and to hopefully,…