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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All the small things
If it doesn’t sound like a blink-182 song to you, maybe it should? Sometimes when I look back at the past couple weeks, nothing MAJOR has happened; there haven’t been any large events in our family; just a lot of small things. In no particular order: 2. While Taylor was away, the girls and I…
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Just pics from costa rica
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Costa Rica II: This is funny
Packing Error. We spent the first four days in the jungle. The second four days we spent on a beach on the Pacific Side, in a Marriot Hotel called The Mangroove. I made an error while packing. If you know me, you know over the past few years that wearing tank-tops when it is hot…
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Costa Rica, Part I: The jungle
It was amazing, and the kids would love it. We spent 4 days in the jungle, then three days on the coast. These are a few fun stories from the first part of the trip.
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Dancing days, and Luke’s things
Rosie is 8. And she is a dancer. She loves it, and that means Tay is a dance mom, and I am a dance-dad. One thing at a time. There are many “right” ways to do it when it comes to kids and extra curriculars. The choices are endless: This list could grow by 15…
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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…