This week, our youngest turned two years old. I still don't think we've got this whole parent thing licked yet...some days it still gets the better of me and I feel like it's too difficult to carry on, some days I don't want to carry on...but, I must...I have to. This is the choice we made...a choice I made. And the responsibility is bigger than anything I'll ever do in my life. Bigger than my job, bigger than anything else. Happy birthday to my little two year old. To my children: I'm sorry for any mistakes I might make in your upbringing. I'm sorry for any disappointment or stress I may case. I don't pretend to be perfect, but one thing you must know, is that no matter what failures I may have as a dad, my love for you will never falter, ever/Toadman, Synaptic Disunion. More here.

• Fluky Friday Find: My Dear Helen/Get Out! North Idaho
• Giving up the bottle; and Health Report No. 1/Nuts & Nonsense
• A girl and her video games/F-Words
• New tech/Simple Mind
• Slow and steady/A Family Runs Through It
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Question: What grade would you give yourself as a parent?

• Fry Day at the farm/Slight Detour
• Tea parties, pirates, other news/Silver Valley Stories
• An inclusive moment of silence for all bullied kids/Life's A Freak Show
• Learning/Live, Love, Laugh, Hope
• Friday and a nice weekend to boot/JeanC's Cat House & Shooting Gallery
• Tidbits: That chocolate had quite a kick/Hauser Thoughts
• Poem: Memory/Gathering Around The Table
• Is everyone who isn't a card-carrying Democrat a potential right-wing extremist/Dogwalk Musings
• Man versus gophers/Community Comment
• Jackie Robinson No. 42/Bay Views
• It's not good when your camera does this/Atmospheric Ruminations
• 2 more days on screenplay/Accidental Rabbit Trails

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