Author: LC's Dad

Needless to say that these last couple months away from updating you guys about my journey has been really busy to say the least. I don’t quite remember the timeline of when every thing happened, so I’ll have to do a summary-based entry today. Since the last time I wrote about my journey, so much has happened. So many ups and downs!!   Before And After Back in April of 2018, before my son was even conceived, my girlfriend and I went down to Seward Park in Seattle, WA to have lunch. It was a beautiful day by the water. While Read more…

“Don’t Blink” Today our son is officially 4 weeks old. We went to Target a couple days ago, at the self-checkout, the associate took a peek at our baby and told me how cute he is, then she said “don’t blink”. That advice could not have come at a more applicable time, because right now I am looking back and wondering where all that time has gone. I could remember just over 4 weeks ago when we were on-call, waiting to get induced, it seems like that was just days ago. Our son is getting so big so quickly. I feel Read more…

Blood-related This passed week, my parents finally got a chance to meet my son. I had been waiting for that moment for more about a decade. I was so happy that my parents got to meet a grandson that both of my parents are blood-related to. I have a nephew(my half-brother’s son), but this is the first grandchild that my dad has had that isn’t through marriage. Now, even though my nephew is not blood-related to my dad, he’s still my dad’s grandson and my dad has never treated him like he is less than that. And my nephew isn’t any Read more…

Patience Is Key Having our son home with us has been somewhat of an adjustment. At first, it was the sleepless nights, getting used to him, learning his personality and habits, etc, now I’m learning something new, how to be patient. I’m the type of person that feels an urge to do many things when I think about them, like: looking something up, paying a bill, ordering something, going somewhere and so on. I get very impatient and anxious when I feel like I’m putting something off for too long. Having our son here with us and making him the priority Read more…