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The Best Sports Moment of the Year (for Dads)
Kerry Wood was the best baseball pitcher in the world in 1998. Since then, injuries and declining skills have left him fluctuating between above average and mediocre. Last week, Kerry Wood announced that these declining skills and injuries were causing him to retire, and that Friday’s game would be his last. He entered the game [...]
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I’m loathe to give parenting advice for several reasons – namely that I’ve only been a parent for three months and for the most part, I’m not a very good one – but I do think I have a handle on a few things. And so, I offer you, the Ten Golden Rules of Being [...]
I’ve been a little hesitant to talk about my Bavia experience because they sponsor this blog. I know, that’s a bit of a paradox, but I was worried my endorsement would ring inauthentic because their logo is on the top of this page. The problem is, while I thought Bavia’s popularity meant that everyone knew [...]
A woman can take a baby to the grocery store, and we’ll give her the stink eye for blocking the aisle with her diaper laden cart. When a new dad takes a baby out in public, it’s such a surprise that you might as well throw him a ticker tape parade. Not wanting to miss [...]
I don’t love my name. It’s not that I hate it, it’s just that I don’t particularly like it. Scott Albert Schneweis – it’s pretty straightforward, fairly boring and a little messy. It’s the egg salad of names. With my child, I wanted to give her a name she really likes, a name she’s proud [...]
From start to finish, our trip to the hospital was 113 hours. That’s 113 hours between when we left our house as a couple and came home as a family. I learned a lot in these 113 hours, including: 10. There is no bigger difference between the difference in how fast you drive to the [...]
One thing I kept hearing from dads in the last nine months was how much I’m going to love fatherhood. “It’s the greatest thing ever and you can’t explain it until you’ve been through it,” was the consistent message I heard from fathers of all types. And now, I’ve been through it, and I think [...]
While driving from Minnesota to New Mexico, my girlfriend and I got super lost… several times. These weren’t small navigational errors, these were missed exits and wrong turns that cost us over an hour each time. It wasn’t that we didn’t have maps, as we were using the GPS maps on our phones. It wasn’t [...]
I’ve decided that if our baby is a boy, then his name should be Fox. Fox Schneweis. Now that’s a name. That’s the name of a rock star, a quarterback or the next CEO of Apple. Fox Schneweis has weight, it has passion, it has that je ne sais quoi that destines someone to greatness. [...]
“Step right up and hear your baby’s heartbeat!” This is how I imagined things going at the eleven week prenatal check-up. I imagined a big ceremony with plenty of pomp and circumstance before the doppler was placed on my girlfriend’s stomach and a resounding heartbeat could be heard throughout the land. In reality? The OBGYN [...]
My girlfriend gets a few “this is how your baby is progressing” email updates from various websites (thebump.com, etc). She keeps most of this information to herself, but one thing she shares with me every week is the current size of our baby. In week four, she told me that our baby was the size [...]
I remember hearing an NPR several years ago about a couple that referred to their unborn fetus as POTUS, after the acronym used on The West Wing to describe the President of the United States. There were several things that seemed ridiculous about this at the time, the first of which was naming an unborn [...]
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