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2018 New Year’s Resolution Recap

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Happy New Year Everyone! I’m starting off 2019 by immediately looking backwards into 2018! In 2018 I set some New Year’s Resolutions and for the first time in my life, made a semi-conscious effort to adhere to them. This may make you feel really good about your own resolutions!

Let’s recap with letter grades…

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Things I’ve Learned In My Time As A Parent. (Volume 1)

September 29, 2018July 7, 2020Posted in family, funny, Growing Up, kids, Minnesota, Parenting, Stories, UncategorizedTagged blog, bloggin, blogging, children, dad, dadmode, daughters, family, fatherhood, funny, humor, kids, learning, life, parenthood, Parenting, parents, Things I Learned2 Comments

As I write this, I’ve been a parent for 1,344 days, and a parent of two kids for 516 days. I’m by no means an expert, but I think I’m getting OK at it. According to what I hear on the news nowadays, I think I’m in the top 90th percentile. This isn’t going to be one of those “parenting is the best job in the world” bits, I promise. There is a lot that I have already learned as a parent, a lot more left to learn, but here is what I know so far. This is the real sh*t I’ve learned.

1.) I’ve never almost counted to three so many times in my life.

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