4 Hard Downs: The Most Dad Post Ever, Plus a Great WR
T-Mac and your boy is stacked, packed and racked up for birthday and big dad season
I don’t give parenting advice, but I do have a nugget:
My aunt, my grandma’s sister (so great aunt) sent a Christmas gift that was an RC Barbie Convertible but it didn’t arrive until just after Christmas. My daughter was fully immersed in the keyboard she got for Christmas and I wanted my aunt’s gift to get some good shine. So, I held on to it and gave it to her on her birthday.
She loves it.
And because her birthday was a minimal/no gift party my aunt is the star of the show and I love it.
Do my baseboards love it?
No.
But it is very cool for a very thoughtful gift from my aunt to be the star of the show and to get to share the unboxing with my mom, who loves my aunt, and my kid who loves her grandma and her aunt and the corvette.
No other distractions, just driving a car around our house. That was a distraction, for me, but now, let’s SPOT THE BALL!!!
1st Down: We Had A Party
No, seriously a party
I did a good job of ordering based upon who we expected to show up.
-0 leftover pizza
-3 leftover donuts
-0 leftover Coke 0 or Coke Regular and 1 Diet Coke left
-Kids using the cooler and cups or their own water bottles
Point being, I didn’t have to pick up any half drank water bottles at the end of the party.
Popcorn a success? Yessir in brown paper sacks
Did I take a day nap right after the party, unplanned?
Yes.
Did I then get up and clean everything up to reset my house?
Yes.
It was a good time and it was nice to get the feed back from my dad, our family friends that we did a good job.
Now, let’s go Soul II Soul, “Back To Life”
2nd Down: Speaking of Life
Yes, the birthday party was a part of life.
Yes, my kid rocking the RC car from my aunt was a part of life.
Another part of life?
Hosting the biggest fundraiser for my kid’s school.
It is different than draft or signing day because this is not anyone’s full-time job and they also don’t work in live events or production. And not in a bad way, but in a way where I think I will, in the words of my man Stephen Hartzell, “over communicate,” next year.
But it was an amazing night and seeing my kid with her friends and meeting other families at the school and teachers at the school was very inspiring and uplifting in terms of the realization that this is the environment my kid goes into everyday.
This school family is why she is so happy and self-actualized in terms of confidence and assertiveness but also learning and wanting to study and grow.
It made me cry secret tears of joy from the principal, assistant principal, teachers, her teacher, parent volunteers, PTA folks, plus the pre-K teacher who went out of her way to get me a pen so I could update my notes.
I hope everyone, especially in this current atmosphere, with respect to the Department of Education, has a school community they can lean on, because we need each other.
3rd Down: Gotta Talk Ball About T-Mac
Do you want size?
Check.
Do you want speed?
Check.
Do you want route running?
Check.
Do you want contested catches?
Check.
Get in with me, he is a banger.
4th Down: Oh And Shout Out To The Biscuits
Who are the biscuits?
Double edged answer coming for you.
My friend from college works for the Montgomery Biscuits and sent me these hats, to add to the collection:
But also no school Monday, my mom took my kid to lunch and got her some clothes, then when she got home she went to BISCUIT ACADEMY.
Huh?
What is BISCUIT ACADEMY?
That is where your dad teaches you how to make a proper biscuit because you can’t be from North Carolina and not know how to make biscuits, from scratch.
She learned the Felder way of looking at a recipe, changing it, but not telling anyone the changes that you made. Cam, it is not lying, it just is forgetting to bring something up in your explanation.
Cheers!!!
T-Mac and the little ones getting gifted remote controlled cars, it's like this post was meant specifically for me
"I don’t give parenting advice"
Well, not directly. But, implicitly... :)
1) When folks in your family give excellent gifts... acknowledge, accommodate, engage (especially aunts).
2) Host parties ... don't create future Superfund sites.
3) Get your butt into the schools and volunteer. (For. Real.)
May I request the Felder biscuit recipe? Mine is a tweak of the BH&G "Biscuits Supreme" recipe from my great-aunt's cookbook. Buttermilk. More salt. I don't use lard anymore because the grrrls still at home are vegetarian. I like to cook them in a pre-heated cast iron at 450° so they get a little crunch on the bottom.
Let there be both dad and football content. And always biscuits