Bouncing Trampolines and Birthdays – The A to Z Challenge 2016

02 Saturday Apr 2016

Posted by P Murphy in A-to-Z, Activities, Advice, Busy Dad, Challenge

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B is for bouncing trampolines and birthdays. Today is a big day in our family. My oldest goes from a preteen to a full-blown teenager at the age of 13 with an attitude of a 20-year-old. So to make his birthday a fun day today, we are going to the nearest (over an hour drive) trampoline park around us.

I never knew what a trampoline park was until last year when my sister-in-law found one and took my wife and our kids to it. I have yet to see what one looks like inside but They told me it was wall to wall of trampolines with ball pits at the end of them so kids can jump into them.

There was kids doing all types of tricks like flips and twists. My oldest wanted to go back there for his birthday so as part of his present and party we are. I’ll have to write-up a follow-up to how it was. Maybe I’ll used another letter in the challenge to write about it or just wait after the challenge is over. But I will write about it.

The rest of my son’s birthday present is still not here yet. It was scheduled to arrive here on Friday and yet it hasn’t shown up at the store. We bought him a basketball hoop because he really like to play basketball and the old hoop we had broken. I hop it at least come in today.

What fun stuff do you do for your kids birthdays? What new things have they tried and liked? Please feel free to leave comments below.

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Appreciation For What You Have – The A to Z Challenge

01 Friday Apr 2016

Posted by P Murphy in A-to-Z, Activities, Advice, Busy Dad, Challenge

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A is for Appreciation. Yes my first post for the A to Z Challenge will cause some Dads to think long and hard at what they are doing.

I’m doing this as I sit here writing this blog post as well. In not at all perfect and I do struggle to on a daily basis trying to be the best dad and husband that I can.

I have been noticing a lot of Dads writing and talking about making life choices and getting a divorce on social media. I don’t know all of the reason nor do I need to know all of the reasons for your choices. Most of the talk I hear is all self center and not noticing what they have until it is too late and someone or some child gets hurt by it.

Everyone needs to take a step back from what you are doing and appreciate what you have in front of you before it is too late. Be happy at what you got and who you married because you did at one time or you wouldn’t be married right now. Remember how precious and important your child or children are.

Because one day it can be over in a blink of an eye. Life is too short to waste time and not appreciate what you got in front of you. At the end, friends come and go but family stays together through the best and the hard times in life. Your spouse will help you more often and be there for you if you show her or him appreciation.

Appreciation is one of the key words I don’t hear people say or talk about that much. I mostly here it if someone is getting something from another person like a gift or helping someone do a task.

As I state that above, I do appreciate you stopping by and reading my blog post. Feel free to comment below with your thoughts as well as your opinions about this post.

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The A to Z Challenge Season 3 (2016)

21 Monday Mar 2016

Posted by P Murphy in A-to-Z, Activities, Advice, Busy Dad, Challenge

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It’s April and it’s that time of the year again for the A to Z Challenge.

Again I’m going to blog in the A to Z challenge for the month of April. It is exactly what it sounds like. Starting with the letter A (April 1st) and ending with the letter Z (April 30th).

I’m hoping this will improve my writing skills as well as hoping for new viewers and new people to interact with about being a parent. I’m going with the theme Parenting on my blog again this year and I will also have a link on top of my blog that will allow you to only see the A to Z challenge posts. I had a few things that came up last year and I wasn’t able to finish the challenge, but this is a new year.

If you like to know more about this challenge then click here. I’m also trying to start-up a podcast about parenting later this year. This will hopefully happen in the next few months.

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