Happy Birthday!!!!
I almost missed it. Today is the 1st birthday of the MySpellingSucks blog. My last year has been incredible. I’ve met many new friends because of blogging and social networking. Blogging is more than just a picture and a paragraph. It’s about defining your life, who you want to be and taking the steps to get there and it’s about finding people who want to do the same things and are taking the steps to make it happen. I didn’t know it when I defined the release date of the new web site for the The DADvocate Project, but apparently the release date is a birthday present to me for blogging semi consistenetly for the last year. That said I should talk a little about the future plans of both blogs here.
MySpellingSucks – This site was started as a blog to discuss my(our) challenges raising Haley. Even though the blog has stayed true to that it didn’t take long to realize that I like talking about (both, now all) my kids. Oh Yeah, I predicted yesterday that Isaac would be sitting by himself. I told my wife he can do it he just doesn’t know it yet. Today he is sitting. (ADD). So this blog will pretty much continue to discuss treatments for Haley, challenges we have and try to stay focused on CP, ADD and Dyslexia. I’ll of course continue to tell the occasional family story and continue to find inspirational stories to tell about folks who overcome diversity. Let me know if you know of any stories worth checking out.
TheDADvocateProject – As any regular reader knows I was awarded the East cobber father of the year for a story I wrote on my blog. That made me think about all the men who are working hard to be a dad and how things had changed since we grew up. They have and they haven’t. I know the concept of work-life balance started coming into vogue in the early 90′s but it’s my generation of parent who grew up understanding that companies could give a flip about their employees because their responsibility is to the stock holder. So I think we have taken a different approach to life and engage on the home front much more so than our fathers did because we don’t feel the same loyalty to give up our family life for the gold watch that never comes. The DADvocate project will have 3 posts per week and will provide a monthly news letter. Post will go up Monday, Wednesday and Friday. To learn more about the project and check out the new site head over to The DADvocate Project.
