Ragamuffin Soul

My freaking life.
In the next 4 minutes you will have learned all you need to know about my parenting skills and my children’s ability to drive me mad.
It started off as what should have been a 30 second instructional video…

I love being a dad…
But when that 6 year old turns 16…
Lord help us all…
Los

[photo credit goes to the paparazzi that is my wife.]
Every night around 4 am…
Oh wait. That’s morning…
She makes her way out of the top bunk…
Down the ladder…
Over Polly Pockets, Disney Princesses, and 43,810 crayons…
Across the hall…
Over my mound of clothes I have dropped at the door of our bedroom…
Around my laptop leaning against the [...]

So every night we read our kids a bible story out of this rad kids Bible.
This is a great example of what goes down every night.
It’s like 5 minutes long.
If you don’t love kids, my kids, or me, you will probably wanna skip it.
But I think it’s freaking amazing.
I LOVE BEING A DAD

Even [...]

Dear Sohaila,
Last night when mommy and I got home from Waffle House we were exhausted.  That means really tired.
We talked about our hopes and dreams.  We talked about changing the world.
I kept asking her what you would think?  What you would say in 15 years about your daddy’s attempt to save the world?
We talked and [...]

I took this post from my wife’s blog.  It was too good not to share…
I had a life moment today. My bean (Seanna) came to the gut wrenching, horrific knowledge that there was a time and place where people like her were not accepted. A time where color mattered.
A place where ignorance was exalted.
She realized, that she is different.
My [...]