Dad

By Trula • June 20th, 2010

I have been very blessed to have a great father and my kids have also been blessed to have a great father also. Here is my husband Brian and my dad on Father’s Day! we had a mini-family reunion also. It was so much fun! More Pics

My husband and the boys hanging out on Father’s Day. It was a real nice day, they made him a big breakfast and later, after presents helped to make a great dinner for him. ^_^

My husband Brian is a wonderful father, we really appreciate him so. After the boy bops made him breakfast and he opened his Father’s Day’ presents, we spent the day at his cousin’s farm; Jeff and his wife Shelly and their two older boys who are 11 and 8. They also have a baby boy [...]

Happy Father’s Day to my dad, father-in-law, and Mercury Man. What a great day! I actually got to see my dad as yesterday was I-bop’s graduation party. He and my mother came for that and stayed over. They left early this morning. It was great to see them! We had a nice relaxing day today. [...]

We spent last Sunday, the first Sunday of Spring hanging out in the back yard, roasting veggie dogs (Mercury Man had meat-dogs!!) till it got dark: Here I am, chilling. It was a beautiful day, really crisp still but the sun was warm and bright. I still needed a jacket! i-bop ran in and out [...]

My husband graduated this past Sunday with a Master’s degree in Special Education! He actually finished his program back in August and got a pay raise at his teaching position, but I urged him to attend the graduation ceremony because he didn’t do it for his bachelor’s. It was such a big deal to me [...]

Has anyone read this book, The Prodigal Father: Reuniting Fathers & Their Children? It is excellent. The author did not visit or financially provide for his own son for most of his childhood but was able to re-connect with his son in his late teens. I picked it up because my older son’s father is [...]

You may recall, my dad has prostrate cancer. He was diagnosed earlier this year and it is advanced and being aggressively treated. My mother and sister found him unconscious earlier this morning. He was rushed to the hospital and so far they haven’t been able to tell my mother much. I am very distraught. I [...]

I don’t know if it would be right to mention by name people I know who are going through breakups and custody battles so I won’t. Some have publicly posted about their struggles on their own blogs and others, some I know about solely through email. It makes me think of my own struggles with [...]

I am not going to the AMC after all, I’m going to run down to Cincinnati to see my dad. As regular readers know he has prostrate cancer which was being treated pretty aggressively with chemo and radiation. My mom just called me to say they want to do surgery now, tonight. The cancer was [...]

My husband is an avid biker, down to the real biking bike and the shorts and special shoes and all. I’ve been thinking about taking up jogging again and he suggested taking up distance biking with him instead. He said it wouldn’t hurt my knees and would tone my legs. I was hesitant. I’ve tried [...]

My father has prostate cancer. I found out last week. I am devastated. My father is a wonderful parent, friend, and mentor. I feel very scared and alone, almost as if I were a child dealing with such news. but I guess one is always a child to one’s parents, and always feels a primary [...]

It’s ten minutes to the game (don’t ask me what game ‘cause I don’t know) and my Brian just raced off to the store to get me some sugar. I have been sick since Sunday and only been able to keep down tea. I was going to eat a little dinner because I am so [...]

We had an ok Easter! We are not a christian family nor pagan but Brian and I appreciate the fertility/spring/renewal aspects of the easter holiday. and the kids love the candy; they got baskets from us and also had a easter egg hunt at my MIL’s. There were unfortunately 2 deaths in my family this [...]

There. I said it. I have publicly declared my husband a slob. It gets on my nerves. For many years our bedroom looked like a high school boy’s bedroom. Slowly over time he got rid of or boxed his teenage stuff. When we moved where we live now, our bedroom has a big walk-in closet [...]

My father fell recently and is not doing so well. Please send your vibes, well wishs, and prayers. I love my father very much, he is an awesome dad and a smart, fun, interesting person. This pic is of us last summer at my house.

I’ve ranted before about my mother-in-law. Well this blog is in appreciation of her. She loves her son very much and has bent over backwards to be nice to me even after we had nasty fights. She loves my kids unconditionally and has always treated my 2 older children just like my youngest, who is [...]

This pic is from 1997, our son Todd was a day old! I was 25 and my husband Brian 23. We were so young and full of pep. Now we go to bed at 10pm, sometimes 9pm, if we have to get up early in the morning ha ha ha. I feel so ambivalent about [...]

toddbrian Originally uploaded by trulastar. This is one of my favorite pics of my husband, Brian, and our little boy Todd. It cracks me up!!

I often feel impatient when listening to Brian talk. I tend to interrupt him. We both have a bad habit of interrupting each other and of finishing each other’s sentences. Yesterday we had a nice time talking, I made a conscious effort not to interrput him. I learned a very powerful lesson: I am not [...]

I love this song Higher Love by Steve Winwood. I love it! I remember it captured exactly how I was feeling before I got with my husband. and the feeling of exultation I felt when I realized that he was my higher love. Think about it, there must be higher loveDown in the heart or [...]

Jack LaLane Power Juicer by Jack LaLane Brian got me this for my birthday and I just love it. We have been juicing fools as of late! This thing is so cool, you can throw in whole pieces of fruit without peeling or cutting. It gets so much juice out, I am amazed. And you [...]

I need to smile at my husband more. Just smile at him and ask him how he is doing more often. I take him for granted so much. And I need to touch him more often, not be afraid to just touch him and hug him. I am not as affectinate with Brian as I [...]

My husband is lucky I think he is so cute. He is really getting on my nerves lately. But then he grins at me and his smile just melts my heart. See more progress on: Improve my marriage

I love the song ‘White Flag’ by Dido, it reminds me of how I feel about Brian and this marriage of ours. I won’t ever give up on our love. I will always love him so. That said, the man gets on my nerves sometimes. He opened up to me about some issues he’s having [...]

I have heard and read that the best way to improve your marriage is to try each day to make life easier and better for your spouse. I am going to try implementing this. See more progress on: Improve my marriage

Last August at the beach: Last summer at Cedar Point: This past June just chillin’ out on the balcony: My sweetie with the kids (this was right before I-bop got her mohawk):

The man I live with gets things done. If the lawn needs to be mowed, he gets up and does it. He may groan while he’s getting up, but he does it. Unlike me he doesn’t spend time making long lists and then tackling each chore as if it were a ferocious monster that needs [...]

The man I live with is kinda hard to shop for. Although he is, for the most part, simple in his wants and needs. Everything he likes he already has plenty of, or it’s out of our budget right now. I would like to get him some nice new nifty gadget for his ibook. He [...]

Brian and I have decided to have another little one. A new person. A child. A baby. Who will it be? I sense this new person hovering around my edges, all ready to be born. This is my youngest’s second full year of school all day. Last year he was in all-day kindergarten, which was [...]