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Hi Matt! Mike here. Welcome! This is my first forum and 'real' web hosting. I've done a very tiny amount of free hosting but this is a paid hosting and domain I bought. I'm interested in setting up a site maybe as a blog just so I can learn the dev process without using a web site builder. I know so...

I'm curious to hear how other dads get hobby time out of the house. Nights like tonight, if I want to game or work on my own projects at home, I can--my wife works swing and my kids are in bed so I can get at it. I'm trying to find ways to get those out of house hobbies done. Weekends are when I get...

That's rough. I never considered other people making the comments. I do know that full term is 39 weeks to 40 weeks and 6 days and I don't think babies 'come on time' very often. I hope it goes well. The "staying within 30 minutes of the hospital" kind of made me chuckle. Our first, we wer...

Welcome, Parsiuk, AZDad!

Glad you found us.

I don't have much advice because our dog is incredibly low key and lazy.

I'd imagine your dog is keyed in on wife's anxiety though so that probably isn't helping.

If the dog is small enough, maybe hold it when it meets the baby?

I'm new to forum hosting and php so I'll be learning this and making changes to improve things as I can. If you have insight or recommendations, please share.

Thanks for joining and for your patience with the process!

My kids are 5 and 7 and one of us still lays down with them most nights. For that younger age, second the routine, and it was a lot of expectation setting. "I'll lay with you so long as you're trying to go to sleep," after story time, then reminding them of that 10,000 times and if they ch...

Oh man, congrats! Our first ped told us something to the effect of, "the first two weeks are the baby making you fall in love with them," in response to is nothing how much harder it had gotten. Take care of yourself and your spouse and remember it's you and them against a problem, not you...

Ten years ago (in the BC era) I did some commercial whitewater raft guiding and loved it. last summer, I rented a raft with a bunch of other folks and my kids (5, 7) loved it. So, I bought myself a raft. With the Sierra snowpack this year, everywhere is still too raging to take the kids out on and, ...

Welcome, folks! Im glad you're here!

Welcome, Josh!

Careers, homeownership, and kids IS a lot. 17 months is right around when I started to enjoy being a dad. Keep it up, you got this.

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