Breakfast:
1 cup MultiGrain Cheerios - calories 100, carbs 23g, protein 2g, fat 1g
1 cup 1% Milk - calories 100, carbs 12g, protein 8g, fat 2.5g
1 orange - calories 62, carbs 16g, protein 1g, fat 0g
4 dried apricots - calories 100, carbs 24g, protein 1g, fat 0g
20 oz iced tea
Total - calories 362, carbs 75g, protein 12g, fat 3.5g
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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Out Of The Running For Father Of The Year 2011
Like the Donald I'm withdrawing my name from consideration. In my case it is from Father Of The Year for 2011. Tommy rolled his ankle in boot camp more than two weeks ago. Thinking it was a sprain he took a couple of days off of boot camp but after that kept coming and working hard, he did take it easy in some of the running but only if Randy or I told him to. With him still limping two weeks later we took him to the doctor today and learned he didn't have a sprain but a broken foot! What a schmuck of a Dad pushing the big guy with a broken foot.
Sunday, May 8, 2011
You Came From My Heart
As many of our friends know, our son Tommy is adopted. We adopted him at birth, we were there with his birth mother during the delivery, Bertie was her coach. The delivery doctor handed Tommy to me for his first cleaning. He was supposed to be a girl so I was still getting used to that news. What a wonderful day that was!
My Mother's Day story is about one of Bertie's explanations to Tommy about being adopted. The two of us decided before he was born to make the fact that Tommy is adopted just that, a matter of fact. Much like having brown hair and eyes and an extremely handsome and intelligent father, being adopted is just one part of who Tommy is.
So, from the time he was very young we talked about his being adopted and having a birth mother that loved him so much that she wanted the best possible family for him and she knew that our family was best for him and that is why she chose us. I'm sure we were telling him things that he was still too young to fully understand but waiting until we thought he was old enough to understand seemed to be a type of procrastination that would make the event a watershed in his life which we didn't believe it should be.
As Tommy got older the conversations became more pointed and he asked more insightful questions. During one of these conversations I overheard Bertie explaining to Tommy that "Many children come from their Mommy's tummy but you came from my heart". This is the essence of being an adoptive parent and one of the most insightful things my sweetheart could have told our beautiful son.
Happy Mother's Day to all Moms.
My Mother's Day story is about one of Bertie's explanations to Tommy about being adopted. The two of us decided before he was born to make the fact that Tommy is adopted just that, a matter of fact. Much like having brown hair and eyes and an extremely handsome and intelligent father, being adopted is just one part of who Tommy is.
So, from the time he was very young we talked about his being adopted and having a birth mother that loved him so much that she wanted the best possible family for him and she knew that our family was best for him and that is why she chose us. I'm sure we were telling him things that he was still too young to fully understand but waiting until we thought he was old enough to understand seemed to be a type of procrastination that would make the event a watershed in his life which we didn't believe it should be.
As Tommy got older the conversations became more pointed and he asked more insightful questions. During one of these conversations I overheard Bertie explaining to Tommy that "Many children come from their Mommy's tummy but you came from my heart". This is the essence of being an adoptive parent and one of the most insightful things my sweetheart could have told our beautiful son.
Happy Mother's Day to all Moms.
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