THE LIFE & TIMES OF A CREATIVE DAD

Every year May, August, & December are probably the most jam packed months of the year for our family with May being the most insane. May typically being the end of the school year, August prepping for the beginning of each school year & most likely coming home from a summer vacation, & December being the end of the calendar year, Christmas & typically time for a winter vacation. But lets talk more about May. In May every year there is Mother's Day, my wife's birthday on the

The best way to describe the feelings I've been feeling the past month can basically be summed up in one word, drowning. My wife & I knew this would be one of the busiest times of the year for us with the end of the teaching school year getting close & testing that happens every year, yet we decided to throw selling our home in the mix 🤦🏻‍♂️ As insane as the process has felt, we are very happy that we decided to move forward with the sale, & it seems like all of our prayers

Simply put, the past month has been quite a ride. We have been playing with the idea of moving from San Diego to Colorado Springs for a long time & a few years back we took some big steps to attempt a move to Colorado Springs to be closer to my wife's family. Jobs were applied for, we were researching housing & we were praying for doors to be opened & closed to where we were meant to be. Thankfully it was VERY clear with the job opportunities that were available to my wife &

I was always a huge fan of Jerry Lewis growing up, & one of my favorite films of his was "The Disorderly Orderly". One line from the movie that stuck out to me as a kid that I still think of all the time is, "Don't try so hard!" This line is repeated to Mr. Lewis' character repeatedly throughout the movie due to the fact that his character is continually getting into precarious situations because he literally trying so hard to do his job well & doesn't take the time to realiz

This past week has basically been a culmination of what I've learned about content creators/youtubers/bloggers/vloggers etc. I started this blog last father's day & I've been slowly but surely navigating my way through this whole realm of being a "content creator". Its a really interesting thing, & some people are REALLY REALLY good at it, which makes trying to enter into this world a bit intimidating, & I still have so much to learn. What originally attracted me to the idea