Category: home and family
Posted on April 28, 2014
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Its still mind blowing to me, but my daughter is a year old. One full year zoomed by. I’ve been looking back over the past year and here are some things I wanted to share… Continue Reading “A Year In”
Posted on April 9, 2014
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It is hard to believe, but my daughter turned a year old two weeks ago. I blinked and she had teeth, hair, and now she moves. Everyone says that the first year flies by and everyone is right. My wife and I had a… Continue Reading “Cor Meum”
Category: children, daughters, fatherhood, growing up, home and family, husband and wife, ParentingTags: Children, Claire, family life, Fatherhood, kids growing up, parenting
Posted on March 27, 2014
by Leo
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My daughter Claire has a really cool relationship with our dog. I guess most kids do but since this is my first experience with the whole canine, Homo Sapien relationship it is neat to experience. Rocky is a mutt that has ¼ Pit bull,… Continue Reading “Beauty and the Beast”
Posted on March 5, 2014
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Today is the beginning of Lent and in the Catholic Church it begins with going to Mass and having ash put on your forehead with the following words said, “Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return”. It is kind of… Continue Reading “Dust”
Category: best self, cleansing, dying to self, fatherhood, God, home and family, Parenting, surrenderingTags: Catholic Church, death, Fatherhood, God, lent, sacrifice
Posted on February 20, 2014
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I have been wanting to write a post like this in the last few weeks and then I read this post from a fellow blogger named Matthew Warner. He says it way better than I could. Enjoy! Here is a link to his awesome… Continue Reading “It’s My Fault”
Category: children, fatherhood, fathers, God, home and family, ParentingTags: being a man, Fatherhood, fathers, God, Matthew Warner, parenting, Radical living, taking responsability
Posted on February 10, 2014
by Leo
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In the Christian Sacred Scriptures and Sacred Tradition there are two ways that the world is referred to. First, as Gods creation that He gave to humanity as their place to dwell, and be stewards of. In this sense the world is good and… Continue Reading “This World”
Category: children, fatherhood, God, home and family, Parenting, UncategorizedTags: Christian Sacred Scriptures, Fatherhood, holiness, parenting, secularism, world
Posted on January 30, 2014
by Leo
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Here at DiscoveringFatherhood.com I love seen new developments in my daughter’s life: crawling, waving, and pooping only twice a day—it’s exciting. As a new dad everything is pretty much new. However, every now and then I experience or hear about something baby related that… Continue Reading “Help, I stood up & can’t get down!”
Category: cribs, fatherhood, home and family, Parenting, UncategorizedTags: babies and cribs, Claire, cribs, Fatherhood, Home and Family, parenting, sitting down
Posted on January 23, 2014
by Leo
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A few friends that have kids have shared the following experience with me and are just as perplexed as I am. It seems that after hundreds of dollars were spent on toys for their children’s Christmas the kids don’t really care much for them.… Continue Reading “The Cardboard Box Phenomenon”
Category: children, fatherhood, fathers, home and family, Parenting, UncategorizedTags: cardboard box, cardboard boxes, Fatherhood, kids, parenting, toys
Posted on January 15, 2014
by Leo
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There are moments like today where I miss the calm, ordered, predictable life I once had. I had an apartment that was clean. Everything was placed in a particular way that made logical sense. I got up at a certain time. Went to sleep… Continue Reading “The Old Days”
Category: best self, complacency, dying to self, fatherhood, fathers, home and family, manhood, Parenting, surrendering, UncategorizedTags: best self, comfort, dying to self, Fatherhood, fathers, Home and Family
Posted on January 9, 2014
by Leo
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We have these really cool cut outs in our walls between the kitchen and living room. The stairs to the basement are what lie between these two rooms. When we first looked at the house we really loved these cut outs because they opened… Continue Reading “Death Trap”
Category: baby proofing, fatherhood, fathers, home and family, husband and wife, Parenting, UncategorizedTags: Baby, baby proofing, Claire, cut outs, Fatherhood, keeping kids safe at home, parenting
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