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Welcome to Diary Of A Full-Time Father. 

Who am I? My name is Preston, and I am a Full-Time Father, aka a stay at home dad. I will get into that a little more in a blog post. 

Before running this blog, I ran a blog called The Leighgendarium. The Leighgendarium started as a place for me to share my love for books, with a focus on books by indie authors. The blog began to grow fairly quickly, and I added some reviewers to my team. I also started a podcast called 30-Minute Author Interviews. My goal was to have a short podcast so people could listen to it on their commute to work. As I learned reasonably fast, a thirty-minute interview is tough to pull off. Once you start talking with the author, time kind of flies out the window. You end up talking about things that you didn't know you would talk about, and you end up learning so much more about the author and their books.

Then, after a couple of years, my personal life began to change. It found us needing to move for a job that my wife got, and I had to change my focus. I now needed to focus on finding a new job and learning a new city. In the end, the blog and podcast got pushed to the side. It began to feel more like a chore or job and was no longer fun.

After living in the new city for a little over a year, we became pregnant, had a miscarriage, and became pregnant again. We were blessed to become parents to a healthy baby boy. My world changed again, this time for the better. 

I have found myself missing my blog. I tried to restart it a couple of times, but I found myself trying to do the book review blog again. That just wasn't where my focus in life was. That is why I decided to start this blog: Diary Of A Full-Time Father.

Diary Of A Full-Time Father is going to be a place for me just to put up random thoughts. I might talk about problems I might have as a full-time father, books I enjoy reading to my son, or even reviewing some tech gadgets or other products that I might try out.

Thank you for checking out my blog. I hope you find something here that you will enjoy. 

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