Tim and Olive's Blog
A Warning to Single Men about Marriage and ParentingDear Single Men, I am writing this letter to warn you about marriage and parenting. I used to be single, and now I’m married with a baby. Life is very different. VERY different. Read More
How to Find a Mature Man“I can’t find any mature men to date.” All too often, this is what I hear from women – especially Christian women. They bemoan the fact that every man they know is not mature enough (or the mature ones are all taken). Well, here’s what I think: the mature man is difficult to find because the mature man is a myth. He does not exist.
The Best Thing about the In-Laws VisitingMy parents-in-law are in town from Toronto, visiting us for 10 days. It’s great to have them with us because we only see them once or twice a year (not counting Skype video calls). Do you know the best thing about them being here?
10 Years Blogging and CountingToday marks 10 years of me being a blogger. I find it hard to believe. I have changed a lot in this decade – and my writing has changed with me. All this time, I’ve kept a general life blog. Then, when I burned out, I added a second blog focused on my burnout recovery journey (“Pardon My Dust, Please“). And for a while, kept a third blog documenting my pregnancy with Alena (“Introducing CHANnel 3”, now found under the “Family” category starting with this post). I could never have predicted that today, my writing would all be migrated to this site, which I share with Tim!
- Happy First Father’s Day, Tim!
Dear Tim,
Last year for Father’s Day, I gave you a book called, “So You’re Gonna Be A Dad.” It was an attempt to help you prepare for one of the biggest life changes you’d ever face.
Door Art in your HomeOver the years, Olive has brightened up her home with door art. Door Art? What’s door art? Well, it’s art on the garage doors and art on the doors inside her home. And the theme was frogs. Why frogs? Because Olive’s dad loves frogs. Why? It’s because he loves the acronym of F.R.O.G. – Fully Rely On God.
Goodbye home (Change is Bittersweet)[I wrote this post on Saturday morning, right before we moved out of our apartment.]
It’s 8am.
My wife and daughter are sleeping.
There are boxes piled up everywhere in our apartment.
8 Essentials to do Before Your First AnniversaryThe first year of marriage only happens once. So when we got married, we figured it would be good for us to intentionally invest in it to set a good foundation for our future together; to make the first year count. Since we viewed our relationship with each other as the base for our future family, we wanted to pour into it as much as we could right at the start so what when the storms came (as they inevitably would), we would have something to fall back on. Now that we have a baby, we are very glad we did this.
We brought the Wrong Baby on VacationLast week Olive and I went on our first vacation since our baby was born. It was a short 4 day trip to nearby Seattle. It was a momentous occasion because it would be our 6-month old daughter’s first road trip and the first time she used her baby passport (now you would expect a baby passport to be smaller than an adult passport, because all things baby are smaller and cuter and have pictures of baby giraffes and elephants on them – but the person in charge at the passport office must have missed the memo).
- Our attempt to get our Baby to Love Veggies
We don’t want to be the parents that have to repeatedly force/bribe/coerce their kids to eat their vegetables. So we are trying an experiment on Alena to see if we can get her to love vegetables. Disclaimer: These methods were not learned from any “expert” or read in any published books, and definitely not scientifically proven. We are NOT recommending that anyone try this at home on their babies or on anyone else’s babies.