Hi! My name is Luke and this is a blog about my family and I: parenting, friends, weekend trips, and some challenging things we navigate as well.
This blog is just an archive for my own memories: “These are the good years” I often say. Some day things will change, but for now, things are pretty good, and I keep this blog as a memory of that.
Marriage is great, and being a dad is funny and hard, that’s why the tag for this blog is “proud supporters of fun and failures”, because if you can’t laugh at yourself, what’s the point?
Anyways, enjoy the blog!
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Meet Hazy
The SPCA of Greensboro just got a puppy that was likely part of an unwanted litter. Her picture was just listed on their website, and if it was anything like the other pet adoption places I was looking at, she would be gone really quickly. Rosie, Mercy I and headed over to their place: 20…
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Capri is fancier than me.
After 3 days in Rome, we headed to Capri via Pompeii. Why Capri? We wanted to see the beach, and I looked at lots of places around Italy, and it seemed like Capri was a fun little spot; not because it has beach (the only beach is tiny, just like everything else on the island).…
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Is Rome worth it? Yes. Yes it is.
I love church history, and in Rome, the history of the church spills out from the Vatican into many different places around the city, and my goal was to see as many of the Holy Relics around the city as possible. Was it worth it? It was even more special than I could have imagined,…
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Good job, Stormy
Caution: This might be hard to read. I had to tell the story though. Proceed with caution, this is a tear jerker. “You did a good job Stormy; you did a good job.” I kept saying this over and over again. Taylor, Rose and Mercy had left the room. It was just the vet, me,…
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Spring, 2025
After a few weeks (months?) its hard to know where to start; there has been a lot going on. There has been a lot going on, but the reason I haven’t written anything is because I have been busy planning our next big trip, and it is a masterpiece. Just last week, Mercy graduated off…
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A big number birthday
People ask me “What does it feel like to turn 40?”. The answer is that I threw away all of my white socks, and went to Costco and bought 36 new pairs of identical white socks. That was a few weeks ago, and I cannot explain how helpful that decision has been. Also: Taylor threw…
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The snow dance
Back in high school, it was widely believed that if you ran around the house the night before it was supposed to snow, screaming a special word, that it would summon more snow here in Greensboro. We did it many, many times and it worked about every time. This is not that. This weekend it…
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New Year Kickoff
Happy New Year! Its gonna be a big year for us, and we started off in a big way so far- for some of us anyways. New Year’s Eve was about as wild as it could be for the parents of a 10 year old and 4 year old. We were in deep sleep by…
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Christmas overload
What the heck just happened? We saw friends. The Steinwedell’s hosted our annual “Happy Birthday Jesus Party”. The kids all blew out the candles together, since that can be theologically confusing. Have you ever done a “dirty Santa” party? This particular night, the “dirty” part was interpreted quite loosely, but the night was a blast.…