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5 Summers: Updated to 1 Summer Left

  June 2019 I wrote a blog entitled 5 Summers, here’s a link if you didn’t see it. I just got choked up looking at it. Oh my. I’m updating that post to be called, the sobering title of: 1 Summer Left  That’s all we’ve got, and this is the busiest summer to date! We will have 3 meals as a family together in June: 2 Sunday dinners and my Father’s Day breakfast. That’s it!?! Every kid is somewhere and everywhere all at once the entire summer. Our main job as parents for 10 weeks is to make sure we don’t miss anything on the calendar, and to be 2 weeks ahead of every moment…yet we are still spacing deadlines, waivers, missing passport and flight info…it’s hard to keep track of all things at once. Here’s what we looked like then – Here’s what we look like now, as this was taken on Father’s Day, June 18, 2023 –   Yes, I now look like their grandpa, time has aged me quickly. They all have amazing hair. Even the dog was included this time. Good Goldie! I used to write extensively about Quantity Time vs. Quality Time. Now I am

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Family

Happy Father’s Day

  In less than 4 hours on the Saturday before this Father’s Day the following occurred: I picked up my youngest son’s bike from the shop, where the flat tire was repaired, and we added a suspension fork to make riding more comfortable and fun; The AAA guy came by, broke into our car, where the only key had been locked in by one of our teenage drivers who was in a hurry rushing to the next thing and got locked out with all their stuff in the vehicle (we made this young driver tip the AAA guy for his help); Cheered on my son in a championship game where he had some great rebounds, a put-back shot, and won the tournament with his awesome team; Paid for multiple flights of one child headed out of the country to end the summer doing humanitarian trips. This is the opposite of what our lives were like a decade ago, when they were 7, 6, 5, and 1.  Those were days of diapers, crawling all over us at all hours, snot, eye goobers, laughter, playdates, binkies covered in sand and hair, parks, endless sunscreen, RV trips, wonder and excitement, every meal around

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Funny

The Parable of the Infinity Pool Mouse

  Our family frolicked joyfully in the beautiful infinity pool, splashing, laughing, diving, probably even swallowed some gulps of pool water, but no harm, no foul. Yet, as we played, I felt an uneasiness that I couldn’t explain. I still licked the water anyway, because who doesn’t lick infinity pool water? The next day I returned to the pool, and instead of just looking at the section where one can enjoy the water, I stepped over to the infinity side (it is called an infinity pool because the water disappears over the edge, where it lands in a smaller pool section and is recycled back up), and this is where I came face-to-face with what I had subconsciously felt must be lurking: A Dead and Rotting Mouse floating in the pool water. {Barf Emoji} {Sadness Emoji} {Cheese Emoji} Unbeknownst to us, we had been subjecting ourselves to whatever can come about from the remains of a dead rodent, while happily swimming in a pool we thought was clean. We threw our children in it; We sat and conversed in it; We probably ran our fingers through our wet hair, feeling like the rich and famous, without noticing D-Con and mouse

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Announcements

Million Miler

  Last week I received an email from DELTA CEO, Ed Bastian, that brought me both elation and devastation in one line: Jason, Congratulations on One Million Miles! Elation because I have achieved something while chasing my dreams and making a living doing the career that I love. Devastation because it reminded me of how much I have missed of my children’s lives, family events, and precious moments to never get back. It’s 6’s. It’s the double edged sword. It’s a blessing and the reality of butt and back perma-soreness. You may wonder how it took me this long to reach such status with the amount of travel I do. The story goes that I was close to this milestone over a decade ago on DELTA, and then they lost a bag with all of my handmade costumes, gear, worth over $10,000. I had no receipts, as they were costumes made all over the world years earlier, and I couldn’t prove their value.  Devastating. To make matters worse it was the first time I had checked a bag in a long time and I had to do an event without any of my proven clothing, costumes, props. It was the

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