Journal FortKnox's Journal: Having a Child... (sappy) 13
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Something I noticed about being a father that never really struck me until spending my first couple weeks with Joey (and felt like sharing). This is mostly to get DaytonCIM extra antsy and something glh is just now noticing...
Kids can get in your hair, and take your time away during the day. But every single time you put them to bed and see them laying there asleep, you immediately 'miss him' and wished you had spent more time with him while he was awake...
Something I noticed about being a father that never really struck me until spending my first couple weeks with Joey (and felt like sharing). This is mostly to get DaytonCIM extra antsy and something glh is just now noticing...
Kids can get in your hair, and take your time away during the day. But every single time you put them to bed and see them laying there asleep, you immediately 'miss him' and wished you had spent more time with him while he was awake...
Sure, it's sappy... (Score:2)
... but it is perfectly correct.
WARNING: More sappiness follows:
Now matter how much my children can drive me nuts, when I see them sleeping I just want to scoop 'em up and hold on to them.
yup (Score:2)
my b-in-law just had his first and when I gave him my sage advice, "sometimes the kid will cry and cry and you will have horrible thoughts -- walk away," two weeks in he called me to thank me. it's not all roses!
funny [dhs.org]
Yeah I am one of those dads [mac.com]
Heh. (Score:2)
Our youngest is spending six weeks at a summer program at Duke this year (she is a rising senior in high school). Maybe you'll be ready for an empty nest after 18 years. I'm sure not.
Too true. (Score:1)
Re: (Score:2)
Last night (Score:1)
I ran upstairs, went into her room and her mom was holding her. It was that moment right before she went into the crib so she was very quiet and very mellow. The mood was very relaxed and here I had just walked in from work and ran upstairs.
I stood there dumb for a moment.
Then Hannah reached over to me. I grabbed her and gave her a hug and a ki
Re:Last night (Score:1)
Is there anything better in all the world? Everytime I touch my wife's belly and she tells me that Emily "knows" it's me, I get the most amazing feeling of joy.
I count the days until Emily arrives...
Thank you for the post.
Sappy and for good reason =o) (Score:1)
I always tease her and
Sappy Sentiments (Score:2)
But still, sometimes when I fall asleep at night I get very vivid images flashing through my mind of how it feels to have my daughter in my lap, looking into my eyes, smiling, and reaching her arms around me. It's the most complete, secure, and loved feeling I've ever known. Guess that mak
Miss 'em already! (Score:1)
I get up for work before the kids do (usually, unless my 4-year-old crawls into bed with us at 2 am) so I don't see them in the morning except for sleeping. I went with my brother-in-law to see Pirates of the Caribean last night and didn't get home until after the kids were in bed. so here I am at work the next day and I haven't seen them awake since Tuesday evening. Sigh.
I should give them a call...
Not Sappy, Honest (Score:1)
It's very difficult to explain how incredible it is to say out loud: "my daughter." And to know that I'm her Dad.
Ok... this post is going to be short, because it's extremely difficult to write about this and not get emotional.
I ordered
Re:Not Sappy, Honest (Score:2)
For any parent: "A Living Sculptor" (Score:1)
After having already posted in FK's JE, and a brief conversation with Bethanie, johndiii and quite a few others regaurding a personal JE of my own [slashdot.org] concerning education for our children, I'm posting this short but simple poem that I grabbed off of a calendar of school events from my daughter's school. I'm sure ANY parent will appreciate this and here's how it goes....
A Living Sculptor
I dreamed I stood in a studio
And watched two sculptors there
The clay they used was a young child's mind
And they