Diary Of A Full-Time Father

 At the beginning of September, we moved into our very first house. We were tired of paying rent, especially when our rent was more than mortgages that friends and family have. After going through the roller coaster of looking at houses, we found our home.  My parents were able to come down for a week and help us move from apartment to house. While they were here, we talked about different landscaping ideas for the home and things that we could do to the yard. My dad loves working in the yard. Every house that I lived in with them, he had a great yard and landscaping.  After we moved into our home, my dad would get up before anyone and go into my front yard and pull weeds. One morning my dad was telling me about different things I would need to do to my yard. He told me how often I should probably water, showed me different types of weeds, and other yard things.  He took me to find a good landscaping company near us to talk about fertilizer and pre-emergent, when I s...

Normal. According to Merriam-Webster, normal is conforming to a type, standard, or regular pattern. Unlike most relationships, Abby and I had a long-distance relationship for four years. The closest we lived to each other while dating was one hour. We didn't even live in the same town until a year before we got married. Not normal. One year before we got married, I ended up renting a room from my soon to be brother-in-law and his family. Abby and I now only lived ten minutes from each other. Today, it seems normal for people to live with each other before they get married. We never did that, even when we lived in the same town. Not normal. Abby had known since she was little that she wanted to be a pharmacist when she grew up. After she graduated high school, that became her focus.  For me, math has always been a subject that I liked. I even got my associate degree in accounting, but I didn't want to be a CPA. Accounting, for me, makes sense. Numbers have to add up and can'...