Dad’s Workbench: A Dad Blog

Baby Steps

Baby Steps

My Daughter as just begun taking her first steps. After cheering her on, she gets so excited that she keeps trying to walk. It is amazing how just a little cheer and hand clap can help her accomplish so much.

It makes me that about how we see and treat others. It is easy to get upset or frustrated when people miss up on the little things, when we think they should know better. It is easy to say things in a negative tone or action. How much more would people be able to do if we encouraged them in even the small things?

There is a lot of potential in people that we often miss. We have the power to enable each other to do things far beyond what we could imagine. Our wife, children co-workers and even bosses could do a whole lot more if we looked at things more positively and encourage one another.

Finally Made It (100th Post).

My wife and daughter are visiting her mom in Thailand and I have been working plenty of overtime. So Dad’s Workbench has been a little quite lately. There hasn’t been much Dadish topics to write on since I don’t have a daughter to write about right now.

After weeks of thinking of what to write for my 100th post I have come to the conclusion that life with out my daughter would be quite boring. Along with that I would probably be blogless. It is not that I always right about them but I found that it is hard to sit all alone in the house and try to write a post.

That seems an odd thing to say because when they are around it seems harder to find time to just sit and write. Usally my little girl wants some attention, needs some food (and eats for an hour at a time) or is being put to bed. I also woundered about the fact that I am setting on my computer doing my thing and my wife is setting near by doing her thing. I have heard of people that broke up because they were to busy doing there own things. We make time to do things to gether however I have found that even if we are not doing the exact same thing, just being together makes a big difference.

No matter what we are doing we, we can interupt each other and talk about something or show each other what we are doing. There is only a few days left and they will be back. I can’t wait. It will be almost 3 weeks and even though video chats are fun it is not the same as being able to hug, squeeze and tickle your little girl.

Well that is post 100 for Dad’s Workbench. Thanks to all my readers for your comments, that is my favourite part of having a blog. I love to hear others thoughts, experences and being able to go to your blogs and find out a little about your life.

It’s A Party

What happens when you throw chocolate cake, kids and balloons into one room? Screaming, yelling, balls flying around and tired parents. Thank goodness my daughters first birthday party had only two one year old girls  (including her) and a  two month old baby girl. None of them can walk yet but they can get cake everywhere.

First Birthday

I still cannot believe she is one. Time goes by faster and faster the older I get. I am not even half way to retirement and already life feels like it is zooming past me like an Indy car. By the time I retire I will be wearing a crash helmet.

More and more I am realizing how little other things in life are important, other than people. Yes, I would still like a sports car, big house, a cabin out by the lake and a speed boat and in fact I will continue to work hard for these things. The point is though that working for these things is not my priority. Family always comes first.

I would rather spend time sitting on the floor playing with blocks with my little girl or going for a walk with my wife and daughter than I would riding a speed boat with no memories made of my daughter and wife.

Some people say that people with lots of money are unhappy. The problem is that I also know lots of people with no money that are unhappy. You can’t tell me that people in 3rd world nations are happy when they can’t afford to feed their own children.

Money is not the source of happyness, therefore money is also not the source of unhappyness. Being happy in life is more of a decission that we make. This next year of my daugters life and every other year I want to make the most memories with her as I can. I want her to know me as a happy dad and someone that when she leaves home she will always want to come back, visit and still have fun with.