Category: Fatherhood
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1. When you’re hanging out with other couples who have kids you start identifying with what the moms in the group are talking about. You’ve chimed in before and then you’ve immediately felt sort of awkward. Just keep doing it, because sometimes, mom really doesn’t know what is best. Dad does. 2. You’re intimately aware…
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I would not quite believe Suzanne Collins if she said she took no inspiration from Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World for her Hunger Games series of books. Some of the elements in the books are too close to one another for it to be a coincidence. Moving on. I read a classic book looking for that one…
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The hardest day to get through was Wednesday, the day after we got the news that London would need an MRI and a neurosurgery consult. Though we knew that the challenges of having a preemie were not over, we did not expect to encounter an obstacle quite as scary as this. But, with some prayer…
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When the doctor ordered a head ultrasound on you to finally put to rest any doubts we had about your head size I was comfortable with the call. Why not just check? I felt confident that nothing was going to come of it. However, as the day of the ultrasound approached I had this horrible…
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I decided to post another original entry from our NICU journal. This is unedited from one year ago today. Day 13 – February 12, 2014 – Wednesday London had her PICC line pulled today. As well as her IV. So she is a lot freer today. Tomorrow is London’s 2nd head ultrasound. Today was a…
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In 2015, like in 2009, I am reading 12 classics I have never read before. The first book, Moby-Dick, is almost out of the way. I am on page 430 of 624. There are quite a few things I did not know about Moby-Dick, but two of them stand out. One, the length. I was…
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One of the most important things Kate and I did in the frantic, scary days following London’s birth was to write down what we did, even if it was watching some television to unplug for a minute. I am so thankful we have a journal from that time and from most of London’s NICU stay.…
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London. I am only human, so sometimes, when you are testing my patience, I may temporarily forget that taking care of you as a stay-at-home dad has been the most rewarding and exhilarating experience of my life. These are the days that I will treasure for the rest of my time here. I cannot contain…
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Did it go by fast? That’s what everyone asks when we tell them London is turning one this week. Like all new parents we have been very busy this last year. That’s what happens when you have kids. Life speeds up as you nurture another life. Everything takes longer from getting out the door to…
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As London’s one-year birthday approaches, January 30th and the days preceding it are becoming clearer and clearer in my mind than at any point since. Today, I am thinking of January 28, 2014. I was in a bad state of mind that day, one day before Kate went into labor three months early. I had…
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I found that writing about my daily routine was very therapeutic and it is also great to have this down somewhere. It certainly will not prove to be the most exciting post of mine to read, but nonetheless, I share it because I never know who might find this helpful, touching, entertaining, etc. 6-7 am –…
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Two friends sent the same article to me yesterday. Published in The Atlantic, Ryan Park eloquently writes about his time as a stay-at-home dad following his clerkship in Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s office. The article is titled, “What Ruth Bader Ginsburg Taught Me About Being a Stay-at-Home Dad: A young lawyer puts his former boss’s ideals…
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How I wish all my fellow Costco shoppers could have attended a cotillion class on shopping the aisles of Costco when they were growing up. Alas, this did not happen so I am going to present to you a few rules my fellow Costco shoppers can abide by for all future visits to that wonderful store.…
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Dear 2014, Only 28 days passed predictably by before you became a year unlike any we had ever had. We were already set up for a big year with the closing on our first house December 31, 2013, and with our first kid on the way, due May 4th, and with me finding a job by then. But,…
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I wanted to share something short today. At some point during London’s NICU stay I was shuffling through some words in my head. The words were not new words to me, but rather old ones with new, real-life experience meaning. Selfless. Difficult. Scary. Challenging. Beautiful. Enduring. Love. The meaning of these words most often change with…
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Most of you know this, but along with this blog, London makes quite a few appearances on my Instagram account. You can follow me @bigbryce and check out the #athomewithlondon hashtag to look at all the images I have posted in the past. The most recent picture, posted last night, was actually taken on December…
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I did not expect to be a stay-at-home dad. Thus, I did not expect to be as excited by some things related to stay-at-home parenting as I currently am. This post is about some of those things. Level 3 Nipples Anything that helps the baby blast through a bottle faster is a godsend. When London…