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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A win, and a loss.
This weekend was great. There was a small win, and a small fail- let’s look at the fail first. This is the plug that powers our outdoor lights that hang over our patio. It is a string of lights, and looks pretty good at night time. However, it wasn’t working, and I couldnt press the…
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Easter it is!
Last week I didnt post anything. It was a rainy, junky- weather kind of weekend, so I focused on my rainy-day project, which isn’t complete yet, but this is what it looks like: Rosie has been asking for something like this, and it should be done some time this week. Everyone has preferences Mercy is…
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Get Lost, get beer.
Though this blog has a tag of “fun and failures”, the “failures” part doesn’t get addressed often. This is a great example of a failure. This past weekend we went to visit our old friends from our years in Harrisonburg, Virginia: Lisa and Brandon. They are living on the outskirts of Washington DC now, and…
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Tournament Town and Toddler Tantrums
Taylor was gone for a few days, and Mercy got a fever. What could go wrong? Normal or not? Leave a message in the comments below. Taylor doesn’t go on many work trips, but she goes on a few. The day before Taylor left (Tuesday), Mercy’s school called and said that she was running a…
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Sleepovers, spring cleaning and slam dunks
Rosie is 8, and in the throes of little-girl sleepovers. Do you remember that time of your life? When it would seem to make or break your outlook whether you were invited to sleepover? And here we are. There are some moments that come up though. For example: When a little kid is NOT spending…
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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…