For those of you who are visiting Dazed Dad from Simple Mom, welcome! It’s great to have you here. I hope you’ll take some time to look around and read about our journey. I am a father of 3, 1 living. Our twin boys, Micah and Judah, were born and passed away on October 25, 2010. […]
Caleb Elijah • 12/30/11 • 8lbs 4oz
At this point, many of you probably know that Caleb entered our lives 8 days ago, on December 30, 2011. Apparently he instinctually knew that his parents could use the tax credit for 2011, and was gracious enough to join us just over a week ahead of his January 8 due date. I will share […]
Bring It On!
A few nights ago I had a dream. It was the first “baby dream” I’ve had, and…well, it was a little scary. In the dream, the baby was crying, Sarah was saying, “It’s YOUR turn. GO get him” and I was walking over to the crib, picking him up, and just holding him, staring into […]
Father of Two: None Living
A quote from “A Grace Disguised” – a book about grief and loss by Jerry Sittser: “Catastrophic loss by definition precludes recovery. It will transform us or destroy us, but it will never leave us the same. There is no going back to the past, which is gone forever, only going ahead to the future, […]
Four Weeks Ago Today I Became a Dad
Four weeks ago at this very minute (6:49am), I became a dad. I saw Micah delivered first; I even saw his little tiny 19-week 3-day arms and legs moving a bit when he first came out. And then little Judah, tiny Judah 2 ounces lighter than his bigger, older brother. I didn’t remember it at […]
Ready for Kids
While we were up in Murphys this past weekend, I got a chance to do some re-reading of books I’ve read in the past, but obviously have much more meaning to me now. The first one I read was Nicholas Wolterstorff’s “Lament for a Son.” This was a book I read in seminary, in which […]
Becoming a Dad
I worked from home last week so I could keep an eye on our 4 year old lab/pit bull Sadie. We found out the week before that she had a very small mast cell tumor, and so she had surgery to have it removed. So she had to take it very easy for the past […]
A Note to Stay-at-home Dads
I’m lucky to have a job that will enable me the flexibility to be at home with the kids and be able to do some work from home once they are born. I know that not all dads have jobs that would give them that flexibility. And so while I’m not going to be a […]
Dad Life
While I don’t think that this will be all that accurate of my future life as a dazed dad, I did enjoy it and hope you do too.