Fatherhood

These days….

March 23, 2011

These days are full of snuggles with the wee babe.  Feeling his breath against my neck as I pat his back hoping to coax out a burp. These days are spent cupping his head in my clasped hands and looking into his deep blue eyes.  He stares at me so intently and looks so serious [...]

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Daddy’s Girl

March 14, 2011

It was a moment that I tried hard to commit to memory as it was happening.  I didn’t want to be in the room and be part of it or take away from the sweetness of it; but I needed to be there to see it, to feel it and to put it in that [...]

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Toddler Talk

February 9, 2011

“KA-DUL” she says when we get her out of her crib in the morning.  “Yes, peanut, we can go cuddle in Mommy’s bed for a little bit.”  “NA-NEE!” she exclaims when I ask her where she’s going to go today.  “Yep, you’re going to Nauni’s house.  Who are you going to see there?”  “BAAA” she says [...]

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In case he wonders if he was missed

December 21, 2010

C is playing between us in the living room.  After a few minutes, she starts pointing to the door that goes downstairs and in her toddler speak says “down”.  Although it sounds a little more like ”na na”  Over her head, Craig and I exchange a glance and a grin.  He went last time.  And the [...]

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She likes the snow; for me, the jury is still out

December 20, 2010

I’ve mentioned my feelings on winter before, correct?  We’ve discussed my disdain for the cold temperatures, my rage when snow, ice or freezing rain keep me house (or town) bound for days on end.  And I’ve mentioned that in this town winters are down right brutal and seem never ending.  So, really. We don’t need [...]

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Just a game

November 30, 2010

I got to the game early.  Really early.  I watched the teams take the field for their pre-game drills.  One team, dressed in blue, was calm, methodical and quiet as they stretched their hamstrings and quads.  The other, dressed in red, was excited, edgy and loud as they chanted the counts.  The coaches walked through [...]

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A good football wife doesn’t say this…

November 16, 2010

“I have a love/hate relationship with football season.”  I left that as a comment on Sara’s blog earlier today and it hit me that it is exactly how I feel.  Love. Hate. I go into those first few weeks of pre-season, three-a-days kicking and screaming.  I hate that it means the end of summer, I [...]

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I’d rather be coaching football

October 18, 2010

She had been awake for less than an hour.  Less than sixty minutes of banging cabinet doors, turning on every toy that plays obnoxious music and constant running back and forth between the living room, the office and the kitchen.  I was rearranging cabinets.  Locking up the ones that housed glass lids, sharp objects or [...]

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Family Pictures

October 8, 2010

Early in our relationship, Craig learned three things about me.  1.  Cards are as important as the gift.  I want to know that you stood in Wal-Mart and agonized over a card that would say the perfect thing to me on my birthday, anniversary or Valentines Day.  Yes, I know that maybe they are a [...]

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It’s football season, folks.

September 13, 2010

 When Craig and I started dating, I used the 15-16 weeks of high school football season as “Krista time”.  He was tied up with practice and film and scouting and prepping for the next game so I made dinner dates with girlfriends, shopped a lot and took spiked drinks to the games.  (Yeah, he coaches high school.  [...]

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