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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Bye Bye Apple, Hello Mardi Gras, Happy Birthday Jake
Where is Apple going? For about a year, I have been working as a contractor for Apple Pay, out of their office in Cary, North Carolina. This has been the smartest groups of people I have ever had the chance to work with. I have been working on a small, internal project, and it has…
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Daddy, daughter, dance-competition weekend
Boy, it was a busy weekend. Leave a comment at the bottom! We were invited by our good friends, the Maness’, to go to the annual daddy-daughter dance, hosted by their church. For years, I had always been a bit jealous that Matt got to do a daddy-daughter dance with his girls at the country…
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Introverts, unite!
Would you call yourself an introvert? These days, I think I would. Taylor definitely recharges her batteries by being alone. But not me. Years ago I would get this time by going on a short day hike in Greensboro- there are plenty of trails around lakes on the north side of town to hike a…
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The NC version of Merriewold
The Logan’s reading this post will know exactly what I am talking about. For everyone else, I’ll try and keep it short and sweet. When I was little, my family would spend a week (or more) every summer at a place in upstate New York called “Merriewold”. It was a family place owned by my…
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Cold Christmas, c’,mon 2023!
The past several weeks have been challenging for me for several reasons I won’t go into here. But, here are a few fun highlights since Christmas (sorry for the delay!). Christmas was fun. And Cold. On the east coast, we had an extreme cold snap right around Christmas. Though everything held up well in our…
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Making balls, running balls, watching ball.
Last year for Rosie’s birthday, she got tickets to a UNC basketball game. If you aren’t from North Carolina, know this: while the NBA and the NFL are awesome, we do not have many professional teams here in the state. We have the Charlotte Hornets (who are never awesome), the Carolina Hurricanes (Uncle Steve loves…
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Rosie’s birthday, small world, good book
Eight is great. Rosie turned eight, and it was a wild time. Taylor gets a gold star for all of her work to make Rosie feel loved for her birthday. Last year, Rosie wanted a “late over” where a bunch of little kids came over and “watched” a movie, among other things. There was no…
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Rosie’s Story
This story has been shared, but with Rosie’s birthday coming up this week, it is a story worth remembering and I hope this can help speak to others going through infertility issues, or issues with their faith, as well. Taylor and I were living in Harrisonburg, VA at the time. We lived in 3 places…
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Cici is 70, Grandma Becky’s bday, and more about Facebook
Heyyyyoooooo!I know I havent been on here much recently, but I will try and keep it going. As mentioned in last week’s post, there was just TOO MUCH going on, that it was hard to get it all into one blog post. So this is part II. Cici’s 70th bash We had a ton of…
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Mercy Baptized, and Happy Halloween!
It has been busy around here- so busy, that this post needs to be broken into two- there just isnt enough space to include CiCi’s birthday, so that will have to come next week. Mercy was Baptized on Oct 30th. It was a very special day. Mercy recently turned two, and as Taylor said, this…
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Piles of leaves, publicly embarrassed, and (Luke’s) picks
Since the weekends tend to be so busy with things like picking up sticks, we went and celebrated my mother-in-law’s birthday on Wednesday this week- she is doing pretty good to turn something something years old! We did dinner at Cugino Forno, and it was awesome. More leaves, and more to come. We worked together…
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Hurricanes, house renos, and how much!?!
Ian roared through last weekend. Fort Myers was obliterated, but that doesnt mean that storm ran out of energy by the time it got to our part of the state. The weather report made it seem like it could have beena pretty bad situation- Rosie’s school was cancelled, and Mercy’s daycare was closed early at…