Daddy Dilemma
Categories: Featured, Progress report
Written By: Playing Daddy
How to be a daddy is going to go through some changes. I have not been posting much and there is no excuses for it. Really, I was planning on explaining the process I have been going through getting ready for the little man to arrive and I was too busy getting ready and not writing much about it. My first failure as a father I guess and I’m sure not the last. With the amount of traffic I am getting here on the small amount of posts I have made, it just shows that parenting blogs have a nice niche to write in.
The little one is due any day now and my wife and I are very excited. She has been doing a great job of blogging about everything on her site and I guess that makes up for some of my missteps. Being the Alpha Male that I am, I don’t want to be shown up by my wife, though I guess if there is someone to be upstaged by…
I’m a pretty active blogger and run many sites based around different topics I’m focused on. I’ve spent the last few months either getting rid of the domains or setting them up to be more automated. In the end I understand once the baby comes home my life and my time is going to be in a constant state of flux. I had to decide what blogs I write in were manditory and which were just nice to have. You see besides my day job, I love to write and my blogs gave me a cahnce to be creative in ways I am not allowed at work. The decisions of what blogs to keep and what to toss was not an easy one but it was needed.
Moving forward. Besides my personal site and a local blog I run, the baby blog will be the only ones I actively write in. It is very important to me to have something the boy can look back on when he’s old enough that will express how important he is to his mother and I during his younger years.
I spend A LOT of time online and I need to spend more time on this blog and get it to the standard I hold for my other sites. So far the baby blog is a failure. This domain name is too long. I bought it because it sounded cool and I bought another at the same time but have not used it yet. I may switch domain names soon to accommodate a shorter URL. I know this will cause some conflicts but in the long run it will be better.
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January 14th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
Your site is fabulous! I wish I could get my hubby to blog…
I’ll be back for sure, good luck with baby.. and congrats!
January 15th, 2009 at 10:01 pm
LOVE the new look!
And man, I can totally relate to all of the above. As mentioned before, you and I are a lot alike when it comes to work stuff.
Use your son as motivation to blog each and every single day. On an uneventful day all that happened was that you changed his diaper 10 times just like the past 48 days before, still blog about it.
I mean how cool would it be for us to have a blog that we could look back at right now that was written by our parents day by day throughout your life? I don’t really think that there are words that could describe that… it would be amazing to look back on and is something that would be shown to grandchildren!
When I first set up our blog and told my wife about it, I had in my mind that once our baby was born we’d do some big wild last fun post and that would be that. But as I inspired you, you inspired me to keep blogging away day in and day out forever.
As Jane and I enter the doorway to parenthood, a whole new world will open for us… as it will for you guys as well. I look forward to making that transition several months from now….
And you guys are just an hour or a day or more or less away from making that transition yourselves. Congrats to you guys!
Tarzan