I'm Baaaack!

My lovely wife-to-be, Dominique, has informed me of a latent demand for my particular brand of daddy blogging.

If you didn't know, I was previously signed to a 5 month contract to write 5 blogs about being a daddy every month. Well, the contract ran out, the company went under, and I had no more financial motivation to continue.

Since then, I've been mostly focusing my efforts on the TOP Project and it's blog and social media sites and writing articles about the religious and political views of celebrities--and watching my beautiful and charming daughter grow up right before my eyes. Oh, and going to school. Yay.

But school's out for the summer, the weather's warm, we're going back to Europe for a couple of months, and if Dominique's right, there are some eager readers out there. So why not start up again, right?

Where to begin. It looks like in the last blog I wrote (and maybe I'll post the old ones periodically), Amie was struggling to assert her independence. That was a year and a half ago. She's still struggling to assert her independence. So... not much has changed, I guess.

Of course that's not true, she's growing and changing and evolving. She's a little person with her own opinions and ideas. She says the most random things, such as walking up to a lady who's daughter she was playing with and saying: "Your kid is telling me I'm little, and I'm not."

She's finally kicked her aversion to languages and seems open to learning words in German and French. She colors, OMG, this girl (and I kind of hate to say this because I had always hoped she would inherit her daddy's musical knack over her mommy's visual artistry) has got an eye. She drew mountains and I'm talking mountains with one side green and one side brown--like a rainshadow and stuff. She drew an electric kool-aid acid test caterpillar Santa Claus, which, I'll be honest, really got me thinking. She drew a building from BSU, having seen it once while we went on a walk, complete with windows and and doors and a roof. I was impressed. You would be too. Maybe I'll post photos of these masterpieces later.

Anyway, she's 3 now, going on 30. We love her to death. She's the glue in the craft project that is our lives.

In terms of a general idea of what to look forward to from this blog, it's hard to say. I just kind of write them as the inspiration hits. However, we are gearing up (as mentioned before) for a couple of months in Europe. We'll be leaving in about 3 weeks. Amie is now old enough to realize that she's in a different world where people talk funny and places look different. So that should be interesting. I'll keep you posted. And, just like the last round of daddy blogs, feel free to leave comments or suggestions about what you'd like to see me write about. I don't pretend to be some sort of daddy guru, but I've got a few tricks up my sleeve...

-Tom