Part One: Family

A person normally gives up a few things to become apart of this family lifestyle. And not always the most obvious such as: giving up your wild and reckless weekends with friends, to be home with the wife and kids. It can be as simple as a child that gives up the last Oreo, in the little plastic tray, to his mother when she gets home for a rough day at work, just to take that weary, sad expression off her face and replace it with a smile. To me that is the beauty of a family, with every sacrifice comes an even greater reward in return.

Let me give you the "definition" of a family as you would find it in the dictionary: "a social unit living together"! Nope, not even close!!! So when two young guys are randomly paired together in a college dorm room together, they are a family? They are a social unit. They do live together. Boom! They're a family?! NO! In my opinion you don't even have to live in the same country. By my own interpretation of the definition, a family is....: "Two or more people that can't (emotionally) live without one another" So basically if one of your family member ceased to exist tomorrow you feel pain for the rest of your life. That is the best way I can figure out to physically explaining true love, because I know if my wife or kid were not here tomorrow....the pain....don't even want to think of it!

Families, in my opinion, are what make this world turn. They are what keep us selfless and strong. If a family lifestyle didn't exist, could you imagine how much more of a "me first" world this would be. This is, once again in my opinion, why God gave us this timeless and ageless gift of Love, so we my share the greatest joys in our lifetime with people we so deeply care for, as preparation for an eternity of Love for him.

A "real" man's first blog post!

This blog is dedicated to the one thing that I am truly passionate about, being a man's man. And no, I'm not self-proclaiming myself the next Chuck "The Iceman" Liddell or anything of that nature. But rather, I call myself the "real man" as a tribute to all "real men", men who share with me the joy and fulfillment of being family man. Men for whatever reason tend to , for whatever reason, tend to get a bad rap when it comes to the family aspect of life (try watching nearly any Liftetime Movie), but I would almost bet that if you were to polled almost every man on his death bed and ask him what moments he cherished most on this planet, I would be greatly surprised if his answer was anything but: "The one's with my family!".

I want this blog to have a lot of meaning for all who enjoy their family life, but I'd be lying if I didn't say it'd have a guy's touch to it. I'm sure I'll go off on rants of varying topics such as: sports, politics, technology, home improvement, etc., etc..... Although, it is my goal for it to be all centralized around a strong, healthy family life. I will be posting first a few broad, yet important, topics to eventually build off of. They will be split into several parts which I intend to include: Family, Health, Work, Friends, Church. There maybe one or two more I'm not thinking of right now but you catch the drift.

I will not proclaim here to be the three-time reigning father of the year, I will be the first to admit when my two-year-old say's "dadby a cookie, PPWWEEZZ" at 8:00 at night, I'm probably going to get him one (when his mother is in the other room, that is). Once again though, I personally believe that is also why I can hold stake to the name of a "real man". We all do it differently and that's good! As long as the family's well being is priority number one, you are a "real man (or women)" in my eyes.