Archive for the ‘Family Life’ Category

It happened to me. Has it ever happened to you? You are going about your life, “living” day-by-day when suddenly something triggers your memories. Memories of the “good old days.” Memories of the person you used to be. Memories of the person you “thought” you would grow up to be. It happened to me. I was playing football in the front yard with my five year old son this weekend. Something I do far too little of these days. He wanted to play tackle, but I did not want to get dirty. I did not want to get tired. But watching him had a profound affect on me. You see, I saw myself in him. I saw that young boy who longed for nothing else than to be outside playing football. Running, jumping, playing. I could not help but wonder, where did that little boy go? You know the one. The kid who would rather be outside playing soldier than sitting in front of the television. The one that would rather be pretending to catch the game winning touchdown pass, or hit the half court shot at the buzzer to win the championship. What ever happened to that kid?

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Back in November of 2008 I posted about my wife losing her job and embarking on starting her own business. It was a scary proposition. The process was exhausting and often frustrating as well. But the results, so far, have been rewarding.

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Throughout the 2008 campaign North Americans heard over and over about the poor state of our economy. We heard about the housing market crash. We listened to stories of long tenured financial institutions going belly up. We heard about the climbing unemployment rate reaching a 14 year high. Until yesterday, they all seemed like stories to me. I was just a third-party observer. Yesterday, my family became part of the story.

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Thursday morning at 6:30 a.m. I received a phone call from my father. He had checked himself into a Houston hospital while on his way home from Dallas on Wednesday night. He was driving home to pick up my mother and bring her to Austin for upcoming birth of my son, when he fell ill. Towards the end of his business trip he found thick, copious amounts of blood in his stool. This discovery alarmed him a great deal, as it would anyone I suppose. But the discovery was a little more profound and intimate for my father.

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Phase one of our journey to enable my wife to be a stay-at-home mom is now complete, well mostly complete anyway. We recently moved into our new home and finally closed on the sale of our old home. The gain that we received on the sale of our home will be used to payoff a nice chunk of debt, which was another strategic objective in our overall plans.

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