An Ordinary Life (999 hits)
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Submitted by badassmofo (View user info) at 2006-06-12 11:00:05 EDT
Saturday night is usually adult night around my house, we're either playing poker or I'm doing some random home improvement.
Not to say the kid(s) get ignored but they go to bed a regular hours so parents get some down time.
That's cool right, I mean you have to have down time or you may very well punt one of the little demons across the yard.
Anyway, this past Saturday was poker and don't worry this is not a post about poker. There were 12 adults playing and we went through 2 tournament games and I think the last game wrapped up around 4:30 am.
Of course on nights like this, my daughter will decide that 6:30 is a good time to wake up.
So I lay her between her mom and me, turn the TV to Noggin, and try to get some more sleep.
For those of you that don't have children, understand that what I was going for here is probably one of the closest things to an impossibility that there is.
So after 15 minutes of kicking, tossing, and questions, the wife tossing furiously (note...do not deprive a woman that is pregnant of her sleep, you might not pay for it now...but you'll pay...oh yes you'll pay) I figure I may as well get up.
A few minutes later I'm getting the kid dressed, admittedly a little grumpy, and she says "Daddy lets go buh-bys."
I think about it for a few, if we stay home no one will sleep; mom, aunt, uncle, and tenant that were present company would be awoken but my rambunctious daughter.
On the other hand if we left, I would be the one without sleep and they would wake happy and cheerful.
Ok, I'm a team player.
"Where do you want to go?" I said.
"Dunkin doughnuts!"
That would be her mother's influence, but hey...I'm cool with it, some tea and a muffin would be just right.
From here on the day is just a day, ordinary in nature and without any largely exciting events.
Sorry reader, you've come this far and I wish I had more for you, perhaps a tale of daring adventure, hilarious comedy, or some other wonderful tale.
But I haven't got more.
All I have is a tale of a father and his daughter and spending time.
All I have is one of countless memories that I have created and will continue to create as my child grows.
All I have is a daily adjustment to my values, to my understanding of the world; perhaps a clearer understanding of what I should and should not sweat.
I spend all week at work doing work, making money, making decisions, feeling like I'm creating this huge impact on life. My life, my child's life, that of my wife and baby to come; in reality the largest impacts I make on our lives happen in those brief hours on unscheduled Sunday mornings.
There is no planning, there are no rules; there is simply my daughter and me and I'm given the chance to once again see the world as anew.
When I'm at Home Depot and my daughter says "Daddy, give me a high five!" and I do...it's the best thing ever. When she follows up by giving me the horns and saying 'Rock and Roll Dude," it's the best thing ever.
I'm not sure where I was going with this when started to write it, I'm not sure that I had some sort of moral to express, in fact I'm fairly sure I didn't even think about this until this morning when I got to work and received my first bit mud to trudge through for the week.
What I do know is that there was a time in my life when I thought I'd never have kids. Who wants the hassle, the relinquishing of freedom, the general unselfishness you have to live up to as a parent?
I know I didn't.
Yet here I am, beaming on a Monday morning, telling you about an ordinary weekend in an ordinary life with ordinary characters and plot lines and telling you that for all the money in the world, all the earthly things that could be promised, I wouldn't give it up.
Peace Uber.
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Submitted by Sacrilicious (user info) at 2007-09-13 19:55:35 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I miss BAMF family photos.
Submitted by coley (user info) at 2006-06-13 14:44:07 EDT (#)
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What I do know is that there was a time in my life when I thought I'd never have kids. Who wants the hassle, the relinquishing of freedom, the general unselfishness you have to live up to as a parent?
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So there's hope for me yet..
Submitted by hyprspacd (user info) at 2006-06-13 14:19:14 EDT (#)
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They grow up before you know it.
Take advantage of those moments.
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2006-06-13 13:56:33 EDT (#)
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cute little bugger. i hope i have pretty daughters. that's so shallow but really it's a good thing to be pretty as a girl, life gets easier.
Submitted by badassmofo (user info) at 2006-06-13 13:47:13 EDT (#)
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inion - there are these times when she has just woken up and her demeanor is just right that the camera falls in love with her, I did a thanksgiving day post here before that had one of these sessions.
Teeph - we could make a movie, you and I, and we'd call it Brokeback Uber...wink wink..nudge nudge
Submitted by Teephphah (user info) at 2006-06-13 11:25:47 EDT (#)
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I don't know what came over me earlier, but I want to make sure you understand that I'm really not slamming this for being cheesy. I really, really, really like it. As in, "a lot."
Mostly because sometimes (on my good days), I do this. (On the bad days, I pretend to still be asleep in the hopes that The Wife will get up and play with The Boy.) There's something so fucking awesome about being the only ones awake (once you get past the part where you're pissed because you're the only ones awake) in the morning. Whatever you do together is somehow more special. I don't know if it's the light or the quiet or what exactly . . . but it's just so damned cool.
There was a line in here, where you were talking about the time before you were a parent. The line was set apart so I could kind of see it in my peripheral vision, but I didn't see it clearly, so I read, "I know I didn't," as "I didn't know." And that line (as I saw it) summed up so much about this kind of morning for me that I REALLY did damn near tear up.
I didn't know.
Before I was a parent . . . I didn't know. Anyone who reads this who isn't a parent probably doesn't know. But reading this, I can tell that you do.
AND I FUCKING LOVE THAT SHIT.
Okay. I think I'm done gushing now. Thanks for this post. 4 Realz.
Submitted by Teephphah (user info) at 2006-06-13 11:06:58 EDT (#)
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Just a little hint from the pro (forgive me, but I can't help myself when I see a student with this much potential):
If you could have worked in something about how your daughter said something sweet and how you cried as a result this could have been even cheesier.
Hope it helps and KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2006-06-13 10:55:47 EDT (#)
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Submitted by badassmofo (user info) at 2006-06-12 17:11:41 (#)
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I took the photo, I take all of them.
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well you're either amazingly awesome or your daughter is just like "oooh yeah suck it bitches i am the shit and i so know it." which i really hope isn't what's running through her little preschooler head.
Submitted by Teephphah (user info) at 2006-06-13 10:49:26 EDT (#)
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This fucking rocked.
Alllllmost as cheesy as the shit I churn out. Keep practicing and you'll be a full-fledged sap sucking pussy (like me) in no time.
Submitted by Brandnamecommercial (user info) at 2006-06-12 20:47:53 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by ghola (user info) at 2006-06-12 19:22:14 EDT (#)
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she's damned cute
Submitted by dr_weazel (user info) at 2006-06-12 18:14:04 EDT (#)
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I'd bet money that there's a whole bunch of Uber Menz out there who "rubbed one out" to this picture.
I know I did.
Submitted by badassmofo (user info) at 2006-06-12 17:11:41 EDT (#)
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I took the photo, I take all of them.
Submitted by Anansie (user info) at 2006-06-12 16:52:37 EDT (#)
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Very sweet. I am going to go outside and choke a kitten to reverse the effect of this post.
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2006-06-12 16:37:08 EDT (#)
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btw who took that photo because honestly it's wonderful. i'd consider that art if you put it in a nice frame.
Submitted by retrospect (user info) at 2006-06-12 16:33:14 EDT (#)
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AFTER READING YOUR POST, I HAVE DECIDED TO HAVE THE MASS REMOVED FROM MY RIGHT TESTICLE SO I CAN HAVE A BABY! WHO'S IN?!?!?!
Submitted by alwayspeach1 (user info) at 2006-06-12 16:28:04 EDT (#)
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Shame it couldn't be a +3
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2006-06-12 16:14:36 EDT (#)
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We had softball tournament all weekend, so I had 12 screaming girls, instead of the usual 1.
Submitted by mbstateside (user info) at 2006-06-12 14:18:02 EDT (#)
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Damn you and your cute offspring!
Submitted by Brdn_Nkd (user info) at 2006-06-12 14:16:42 EDT (#)
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word.
Submitted by Sacrilicious (user info) at 2006-06-12 13:43:21 EDT (#)
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Auto +2 badass kid
You sound like a good daddy.
Submitted by Webered (user info) at 2006-06-12 13:06:00 EDT (#)
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I had your daughter. She's not as wonderful as you make her out to be.
Submitted by ubetidid (user info) at 2006-06-12 12:59:23 EDT (#)
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she has her dad wrapped around her little finger, doesn't she??
Submitted by c1ndy (user info) at 2006-06-12 12:57:58 EDT (#)
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haha... awesome!
Submitted by Wildman (user info) at 2006-06-12 12:42:20 EDT (#)
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Needs more tattoos.
Submitted by loki (user info) at 2006-06-12 12:32:04 EDT (#)
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I wonder if my dogs feel this way about our morning run.
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2006-06-12 12:11:40 EDT (#)
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i shoot for ordinary and keep missing. this crap makes me all teary and it doesn't help that almost everyone i know keeps asking me when i'm gonna start having babies.
sidenote: when i think of your camwhores i think of the dude from the original amityville horror. not sure why though.
Submitted by HighVoltage900 (user info) at 2006-06-12 12:01:42 EDT (#)
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Curse you and your heart warming story.
Submitted by exposed (user info) at 2006-06-12 11:58:55 EDT (#)
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Precious little darling.
Submitted by eleanor_rigby (user info) at 2006-06-12 11:57:18 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by ahumblefool (user info) at 2006-06-12 11:48:05 EDT (#)
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Badass, this is so true. There are moments with my son and daughter that outshine most events in my life. A random saying, a weird neverending song from my daughter, and intellectual discussion on where boogers come from with my son, it is worth it all.
One time my daugher woke up around 5:30 in the morning. We got dressed and went for a drive to get a coffee and a kids hot chocolate, we ended up at the ocean, two hours away. It was one of those days that just seemed to end so quickly yet stay for so long, if that makes any damn since.
Submitted by TigerLilly (user info) at 2006-06-12 11:44:35 EDT (#)
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That child should really do tv commercials or something.
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2006-06-12 11:42:39 EDT (#)
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That's quite lovely.
Submitted by moneyshotforyou (user info) at 2006-06-12 11:29:43 EDT (#)
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Yet here I am, beaming on a Monday morning, telling you about an ordinary weekend in an ordinary life with ordinary characters and plot lines and telling you that for all the money in the world, all the earthly things that could be promised, I wouldn't give it up.
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Agreed, I now have four.
Submitted by dove666 (user info) at 2006-06-12 11:26:20 EDT (#)
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Needs Sunscreen.
Submitted by wookie (user info) at 2006-06-12 11:22:27 EDT (#)
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"All I have is a daily adjustment to my values, to my understanding of the world; perhaps a clearer understanding of what I should and should not sweat.
I spend all week at work doing work, making money, making decisions, feeling like I'm creating this huge impact on life. My life, my child's life, that of my wife and baby to come; in reality the largest impacts I make on our lives happen in those brief hours on unscheduled Sunday mornings."
Amen, man. Amen.
Submitted by retrospect (user info) at 2006-06-12 11:18:00 EDT (#)
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*opens arms*
Submitted by badassmofo (user info) at 2006-06-12 11:15:25 EDT (#)
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technically its 'fuckin gonuts'
ya know....brothers gotta hug, right?
Submitted by retrospect (user info) at 2006-06-12 11:14:03 EDT (#)
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i think i love you. in a brotherly way...
and its dunkin donuts mother fucker.
Submitted by DrogoRoch (user info) at 2006-06-12 11:12:07 EDT (#)
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Nice. Ordinary sounds bliss to me.
Submitted by badassmofo (user info) at 2006-06-12 11:10:13 EDT (#)
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I'm not terribly sure what a blog is or where to get one but I'll thank you for the 'worth reading' and bid you a good day.
Submitted by sicosemen (user info) at 2006-06-12 11:07:55 EDT (#)
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Yes, very nice and heart warming, but write that in your blog. This did nothing to entertain me, sorry. I'm sure the plethora's of +2 Cut3 ROckSt4r D4ught3r comments will make up for my fallacy.
Submitted by The_Cyst_Master (user info) at 2006-06-12 11:07:48 EDT (#)
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I got really excited when I thought that snot was jizz.
Still hot though.
Submitted by badassmofo (user info) at 2006-06-12 11:05:28 EDT (#)
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of course in the heat of it all, I should probably remember to not post pictures of the kid with snot hanging from her nose.
Submitted by Hilarity_Ensues (user info) at 2006-06-12 11:04:44 EDT (#)
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Mmmmm.... I still eat flav-o-ice.
Submitted by The_taste_of_Monkeys (user info) at 2006-06-12 11:02:26 EDT (#)
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Dude *respectful nod*