Hi! My name is Luke and this is a blog about my family and I: parenting, friends, weekend trips, and some challenging things we navigate as well.
This blog is an archive for my own memories: “These are the good years” I often say. Some day things will change, but for now, things are pretty good, and I keep this blog as a memory of that.
Marriage is great, and being a dad is funny and hard, that’s why the tag for this blog is “proud supporters of fun and failures”, because if you can’t laugh at yourself, what’s the point?
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2023 Blog Review, favorite things, and resolutions
2023 is over, so its time to peel back the curtain and reflect on what the analytics say about the blog: According to Google Analytics: The top pages from 2023: All of the numbers above mean this: not many people read this blog, and I am 100% ok with that. But what is the goal…
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Christmas, 2023
Or, Getting Busy Yall We did a lot. Rosie had to help me remember what happened when. No, it wasn’t because I couldn’t remember for THAT reason. It was just fast and furious. And today, it will be fast and… God willing… quiet. Peanut Butter Balls. The 14th annual making of the balls. Punny jokes…
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Rosie, Registers, and Running the Balls
This is a post about everything. This is a post about nothing. It is hard to say really- things move FAST during December. Rosie had a birthday. Its true. Every year, right after thanksgiving, and Taylor does an awesome job planning everything. And then December starts getting busy, and we are tired after doing all…
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Sisters
When Rosie came home from dance on Tuesday, she put her book bag down, and walked right past me. Instead of stopping to share how her day was, she sat on the ground beside Mercy, and Rosie asked Mercy how her day was. These kinds of things happen all the time. This post is to…
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Thanksgiving 2023
It was a blast. We ate a ton. The dressing was great (it is called “dressing” if it is not stuffed inside the bird, and “stuffing” if it is actually inside the turkey, according to my MIL). The decorations were beautiful. And the Tarheels lost terribly against NC State in Football. Amelias Birthday was just…
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Stormy’s Story
There has been a post about Mercy, sharing her story. There has been a post about Rosie, sharing her story. The 9 people who read my blog have spoken: they want to hear Stormy’s story. So, turn on the the wayback machine, step into the Delorean, warm up the flux capacitor, we are going back…
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Weekend in Boone
When there are lots of kids, they have to have something to do. It is tiring, yes. One trick most parents can likely agree on: When there are multiple kids, it tends to be easier to parent them. What does that even mean? It means, kids can entertain themselves; and that’s (almost) exactly what happened…
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Birthday, Broadway, and Boo!
Thanks to all of the eight people that read this blog. If you are reading this, chances are you know me and/or my mom who is celebrating her birthday. Or you like reading up on Halloween and this caught your attention. So, welcome. And now you get to hear about my mom’s birthday. She had…
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Possible diagnosis, home again, and fall
Do you go to counseling? Would you ever consider it? I have been going to a counselor, and it has been helpful. Recently, there was a subtle suggestion that Taylor and I have been thinking on. It goes a little something like this. When the kids start screaming, I can’t handle it. When there is…
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another high school reunion
Last week was Taylor’s 20 year high school reunion; this week was mine. Friday night we got together, both page and grimsley (our rival), at a place called “Terminal Tap”, a bar opened within the past year by one of our alumni, Ty Tysinger. It was a fun crowd. The goal was to go to…
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Reunion, Anniversary, and the Children’s museum.
This week is also special: Taylor had her 20 year high school reunion, from Northwest High School here in Guilford County. It was a fun night- way more fun for her to catch up with some old friends. Around 60 people showed up, at a local bar called Oden. It was really laid back. There…
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Teacher Swap, and UNC Football
Its fall. Taylor is on a work trip to Philadelphia for work, and I can’t sleep, so adding another blog post is the obvious best thing to do. In our neighborhood, one thing we look forward to is the “scary house” that goes all-in for halloween decorations. They are a few blocks away so we…