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The Art of Fantasy Football Smack Talk

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Dear Jackson,

One day I want you to be well versed in the art of fantasy football insults. Fantasy smack or trash-talk…whatever you call it is vital to the experience and vital to success. When you play fantasy football for as long as I have you’ll realize that trash talk skills are directly related to fantasy football skills and more so related to over all intelligence.

Most significant others don’t get it. Your amazing mommy is one of them. She just doesn’t get why I’m up at 1230 on a Monday night texting. Well… This weeks match up came down to two players on the last drive if the game… That’s why.

There is nothing better than ending a smack talk conversation with what you know your opponent be would bring up. Eminem 8 Mile style when he destroys Papa Doc

When you can bring in props and/or outside people it’s a win/win. The best tactic to use is your 4 month old son to prove a point.

I know we will work on developing your skills as you grow into the little fantasy football legend I know you will become.

Love,

Dad (AKA: The Commish, 2X LOS Champion, Fantasy Football Legend)

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September 11th

Considering I’m a pretty funny guy (at least in my own head) and usually try to deal with tragedy or sadness with humor this is one of those days that’s difficult for me to deal with. BC when it comes down to it there is no humor to be found on this day.

As a first grade teacher from 2002 on to my present years as an assistant principal I always struggled with the appropriate way to handle today in the classroom. By now none of the kids in my school were even close to being born in 2001, so the events of that day are not really a tragedy but more an event from history.

But to me and the rest of the people who lived through that day. Sept 11 has become our generations Pearl Harbor and now we’re faced with the task of deciding how to remember another, as Roosevelt put it, “day that will live in infamy.”

So the question is how exactly do you talk to your child about this. I mean not at four months or even four years, but down the road. Because just saying the date out loud… September 11, conjures up the images of walking through the empty and silent CCSU campus wondering what in the hell was going on.

Then spending the rest of the day sitting in my dorm room watching the events unfold with the guys in silence for hours. So it’s more than history, it’s real life. It happened. We watched it happen. Steph and I were at Ground Zero less than a month later.

I guess just like everything else in life we have to take it day by day. When the time comes though I’m not sure I’ll know what to say to him… But no matter what history has already dictated a portrait of Sept 11th… That being one of heroes, selflessness, sacrifice and patriotism. Maybe that’s how we all need to look at this day whether you’re four months, four years or forty

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Not Ashamed

It’s to the point where everyone’s opinions, theories and stories of what worked for them are all just jumbled up and not accessible when I need them.

I know someone a few months back recommended the vacuum for those sleepless night. But today that theory was actually put into practice

And sometimes… In a crazy world…desperate times call for desperate measures. That vacuum ran longer than all the times Stephanie has used it combined. And it worked. Still out and sleeping like a baby… (See what I did there??!)

Again…

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Hours later… Yea that’s a DustBuster running under his swing. Whatever works.

 

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Looking for the Good Project

So the other day we went to Hammonasset State Park/Beach and ran into this group who run a non profit called Look For the Good Project. (http://www.lookforthegoodproject.org). It was really interesting to see the different pieces if art and ideas of what people are grateful for in their lives.

Working with inner city kids your whole life changes your prospective on the difference between “want and need”. Seeing this project got me thinking about how grateful I truly am for my wife and son (and of course Buster and Max).

We were able to sit and talk with Anne, the founder of the project, and get her reasoning for starting and growing her non profit. She seems to just get it… Get what life is supposed to be. The interactions, the appreciation… Just the feeling of what makes us who we are.

Of course my answer to what am I grateful for is Jax and my amazing wife and puppies. But to be honest it goes deeper than that. I’ve worked with so many amazing and unique children in my career. I’ve seen some who have it easier than others and some who have had it tougher than it should be for anyone, let alone a child. I’m so grateful that Jax is here, healthy and happy. I’m so grateful that he came to is when he did. At a time when Steph and I were completely ready to turn our lives over to someone other than each other or ourselves.

He really is something to be grateful for.

If you haven’t checked out Anne’s project and book, I recommend you do.http://www.lookforthegoodproject.org

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Dinner Date

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Only big boys sit at the dinner table…

Sometimes a dad’s gotta do what a dad’s gotta do. #IfYouCantBeatEmJoinEm #CribWeightLimit? #Roommates #GoToSleep #WhatEverWorks

 

PS: Truer words have never been spoken.

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#HandsomeLikeDaddy #LikeFatherLikeSon.

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Lots Going on Lately

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The process of attempting to put together the first solid meal is literally like trying to solve a puzzle with missing pieces.

“Where the hell did we put the spoons?”
“Where is the tub from that we put all the baby bowls in?”
“Crap… Did I forget to put the high chair?”
“Wait you have to like mix it with something?”
“What do you mix it with?”
“I think you put it in the microwave?”
“How long?”
“Try it…”
“No you try it…”
“Buster, Max come here, we have a great for you.”

 

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Absolutely destroying the Instagram world right now. #InstaCuteness #InstaAdorable #FinallyFoundHisThumb #MrMcgibblets