Friday, November 18, 2005

A little about me and my family

I am 27 years old and have been married for 2.5 years. My wife and I have one son, Caden, who just turned 2 this November. We live in the balmy state of Minnesota in the Minneapolis area. We are currently expecting our next child with a Christmas due date. I work full time, my wife works part time. We own our house, which we built (that will have a whole post to itself ... as I chose the great timing of building it when Caden was born). We have two dogs (a newfy/retriever and a sheltie/american eskimo) and 2 cats...all except for the newfy were brought together by our marriage. I work in IT as well as coach football in the fall. My wife is a elementary teacher (currently working at a French Immersion school ... although she'll be the first to tell you she doesn't speak a lick of french). That should be a good enough bio to get started with...

Tuesday, November 08, 2005

The Dad Journal ... first post

The web is full of information when it comes to new babies, but what I never found a couple of years ago when we had our first child was good information from a father's perspective. Now that our second one is on the way, I wanted to create a site that served multiple purposes...

1. To share my daily thoughts and happenings for fathers, mothers, and parents-to-be.
2. To gain insight from others on what works / doesn't work for them
3. To develop this into an open forum where questions can be answered and information can become readiliy available to those that need it.

The first two is where I will start out through posts and comments. If this site catches on like I hope it does, the last one will be realized.

I'll follow-up with a post about myself and current situation and we'll go from there! So pass the word on if you've found me... I hope that dadjournal.blogspot.com can become a place you come daily to get information, reassurance, and of course some good laughs...