Thanks for wanting to share in Liam's life and thanks for being willing to do it via this blog site. I feel like I need to apologize. You come here anxiously awaiting pictures of Liam and in turn receive about 250 words about whatever random thought I'm having at the moment. That is, of course, if you read it! Liam is doing great. After a short bout with baby acne (I reminisced) he is doing and looking great. We're really working on that first purposeful smile and holding our heads up right now. It's really amazing how having a child opens up a whole new wardrobe of emotions that I don't think exist consciously to a person until that child is born. You learn a real lesson about grace, mercy and love that you can't experience before you have a child. It is no stronger than the love you feel for a spouse, but different and equally cool! When I'm holding him and he's asleep with me, I am only hoping that the love that I'm feeling for him is oozing out of me and wrapping itself all around and throughout him. I hope that is the feeling that he is learning and taking in from Courtney and I. Courtney is the exact definition of love. Evertything about her is love. So if he doesn't learn it from her, we have a problem.
Don't you wish you could just exude love to anyone around you at any time and they could feel it and perhaps make their day. I actually think maybe you can. I mean, typically you can tell when someone is giving off negative energy around you, so why not positive emotions? How many times do we wake up and say "I am going to impact someone's day for the better today." Life can be broken down (over)simply into a series of decisions all day long right? Whether or not to get up for work. Which route to take to work. Whether or not to flip that person the bird that wouldn't let you in so you have to go to the next exit and backtrack? I would like to actually tally mark every single decision I make in one day and see how many times I made the right decision. As vague as 'right' can be, I will define it as something that would be a more positive impression for another person watching objectively or could see into my heart and mind. I bet I would fail miserably. Then I could set a goal of increasing my percentage of 'right' decisions over time and hopefully make more of a positive impact on the world. What if everyone charted their decisions and made a 1% improvement from one day to the next. On an aggregate level that would only be a 1% increase, but it would also be 6 billion percentage point increases. That's a lot of 'right' decisions. The world would look completely different! Hmmm, I'm going to challenge myself to make more and more 'right' decisions everyday. Care to join me? (Ok, that was like 3 random thoughts that are very loosely connected at best - join me next time on why I think the Writers Guild of America strike is a good thing).
Funny video of the week for me. This is my nephew Casey at his 2nd birthday party. Check him out when he notices the camera and gives the camera direction to "SMILE!". The video didn't capture it as good as it was live, but it's still funny!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7609247169125944823
Peace, love and happiness to you.
Thanks for wanting to share in Liam's life and thanks for being willing to do it via this blog site. I feel like I need to apologize. You come here anxiously awaiting pictures of Liam and in turn receive about 250 words about whatever random thought I'm having at the moment. That is, of course, if you read it! Liam is doing great. After a short bout with baby acne (I reminisced) he is doing and looking great. We're really working on that first purposeful smile and holding our heads up right now. It's really amazing how having a child opens up a whole new wardrobe of emotions that I don't think exist consciously to a person until that child is born. You learn a real lesson about grace, mercy and love that you can't experience before you have a child. It is no stronger than the love you feel for a spouse, but different and equally cool! When I'm holding him and he's asleep with me, I am only hoping that the love that I'm feeling for him is oozing out of me and wrapping itself all around and throughout him. I hope that is the feeling that he is learning and taking in from Courtney and I. Courtney is the exact definition of love. Evertything about her is love. So if he doesn't learn it from her, we have a problem.
Don't you wish you could just exude love to anyone around you at any time and they could feel it and perhaps make their day. I actually think maybe you can. I mean, typically you can tell when someone is giving off negative energy around you, so why not positive emotions? How many times do we wake up and say "I am going to impact someone's day for the better today." Life can be broken down (over)simply into a series of decisions all day long right? Whether or not to get up for work. Which route to take to work. Whether or not to flip that person the bird that wouldn't let you in so you have to go to the next exit and backtrack? I would like to actually tally mark every single decision I make in one day and see how many times I made the right decision. As vague as 'right' can be, I will define it as something that would be a more positive impression for another person watching objectively or could see into my heart and mind. I bet I would fail miserably. Then I could set a goal of increasing my percentage of 'right' decisions over time and hopefully make more of a positive impact on the world. What if everyone charted their decisions and made a 1% improvement from one day to the next. On an aggregate level that would only be a 1% increase, but it would also be 6 billion percentage point increases. That's a lot of 'right' decisions. The world would look completely different! Hmmm, I'm going to challenge myself to make more and more 'right' decisions everyday. Care to join me? (Ok, that was like 3 random thoughts that are very loosely connected at best - join me next time on why I think the Writers Guild of America strike is a good thing).
Funny video of the week for me. This is my nephew Casey at his 2nd birthday party. Check him out when he notices the camera and gives the camera direction to "SMILE!". The video didn't capture it as good as it was live, but it's still funny!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7609247169125944823
Peace, love and happiness to you.
2 comments:
Y'know -- "listening" to what you and Courtney are discovering as new and proud parents is a lot like going someplace special with someone who's never been there before. It's the amazing chance to see something familiar as "new" because you're able to "see it through their eyes".
So what a joy for me to "hear" the excitement you both have and be able to add to my grandson total! Whether you like it or not, I'm going to make sure I add Liam to the list when I answer the " ... so how many grandchildren to *you* have?" question.
And would it kill you to let me know what your phone number is? I've been trying to find it (to no avail) so we can talk because I'm just not going to try to share months of newsy stuff via my old fingers on a keyboard.
Love from Oz,
Dad
Jarod, As a "mom" I truly enjoy all of your words describing your new adventure as a "dad". And as your "mom", I truly enjoy learning yet more and another aspect of you as a Man and a dad.
If you don't remember, your writings on line are the same as letters we all used to write to loved ones because stamps were cheaper than long distance rates on the telephone.
It's interesting to see you ponder on all the forms of communication techniques there are now. Me being from the time in life that I am still prefer live voices and or Faces along with the words.
But, I agree with anthony, in that i do prefer for sure to hear voices and cries and to see smiles and laughs other than at my fingertips, but (again) i love to be able toe read and see pictures any time i want
Mail some pics please.
love and hugs to all four of you, including the dog.
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