My story of coming into Motherhood... the ups and downs, smiles and frowns, highs and lows, and baby blows.
Friday, April 12, 2013
The Dad Post, Part I
My
wife found her talent, and many others have found her talent as well, including
me. Not only is she blessed with the gift of gab, but she can somehow put her
wonderful personality on paper too. I didn’t think it was possible. I figured
there’s no way you can understand my wife unless you met her in person. I was
wrong. I must admit that I have become a fan of the Baby Bleauxs blog that she
began. Much like yourself, I’ve found myself wondering when the heck is the
next blog post coming. I blame myself. She was waiting on me to write a Dad
post.
She
began Baby Bleauxs as a way to vent her joys, feelings, frustrations of being a
new mother without spilling it all out on me. She has a cache of notebooks,
pads, and journals trapped away in trunks, closets, and her nightstand where
she has spewed emotion in ink so that she didn’t have to keep it all trapped
inside. As my best friend, she usually shares some of her inner most thoughts
and life questions with me, but even I am unfit to be a muse for some of this
stuff as sometimes I’m the cause of the vented frustration. She gracefully
bashes me on paper so she can be sweet to me in person. I don’t mind. No use to
keep hammering away at this hard head because there’s not much that penetrates
unless its sports related.
When
she asked my opinion about her starting a blog about motherhood, I was a little
unsure. I guess I didn’t know enough about parenthood to realize there were
pleanty of people out there that share the same situations as what we have been
through. Now everyone else knows how much of a gem I’ve found. Some might find
us unconventional or unusual with the way we are raising our little nugget, but
it works for us. Trust me, I had to be talked into the whole cloth diaper
thing. I believe she had to talk herself into that one too. She’s always
thinking about her nugget and this family first and how to make it better. So I
listen when she brings up a new idea or a new product to try. Haha, she’s gonna
laugh when she reads the part about me listening, but I do, sometimes. I
definitely encourage her creativity and will try anything with her in the name
of Nugget. She does so much research before she comes to me, sometimes I can’t
find a reason to say no. Deep down I think she’s a born again hippie, but I
guess the incense has rubbed off on me too.
As
we agreed in the beginning, we are going to go through parenting 50/50. When I
promised her that I would write a Dad post, I’m going to stay true to my word.
Next time you hear from me, I’ll tell you the Tale of Nugget from Dad’s point
of view. The whole first year, from first days to first teeth. All you moms
just go easy on me though, and don’t get all sappy either. I’m not as good of a
dad as my wife lets on. I’m still in training. The Eeb
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