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I'm Jon.

I'm a Dad.

That's likely the number one thing you need to know about me. As it is certainly the title that is most important to me.

Dad. Husband. Owner of fish.

I write this post with a three month old sleeping on me in the tula. A three year old watching Dinosaur Train on our WiiU Gamepad.

My wife working away upstairs in her closet office.

This is our new normal.

This is our life.

Not that long ago, I was one of those guys... putting on a suit for 40 hours a week. Working crazy hours. Home at 3am most nights. Missing a lot of most important times with our first. The one now addicted to Dinosaur Train. I was tired. I was missing my family. I was unfulfilled.

I was on a direct path to nothing I wanted. Working for a soulless company. Neither appreciated, nor properly utilized. There was really only one option.

An exit.

Now, I'm a Dad. Full time. The pay is lousy. The benefits are great.

Straight out, I'm doing the most important thing I can be doing... and on a certain level, making up for the failures of my own father.

I don't wear a suit anymore... and really can't even imagine the next time I will. Instead, I wear baby puke... and other bodily fluids. I do it with pride.

So this is a blog about our adventures. Our wins. Our losses. This thing we call life. I don't know exactly what voice this blog will take, we'll find that out along the way.

I've never been one for walking the normal path everyone else does. I've always been more of the forge my own path variety.

This is the most important path. Our kids are my passion. So, here we are trying to give them the knowledge and the love they need to challenge their ways through life. To forge their own paths.

We do certainly look at various philosophies when it comes to child raising. However, usually I just go with what seems like common sense to me. Maybe we'll get into that sort of thing later.

For now, welcome. Thanks for stopping by. Let's see where the path takes us.