happy babydaddy day

Dave and I laugh at ourselves at least once a day because we think we are totally unfit to be parents.

We tell horribly dirty jokes and say words that would make a whore blush. We say these things in front of our mothers. My mom doesn't bat an eye at it. Dave's mom does. We don't have 401K's. We don't wear sunscreen below our chins. We are like half a million dollars in debt. Seriously. We have friends that would scare your friends and family that would make your family run away crying. We only went to graduate and law school to extend the party for a few more years. We've been known to drink sailors under the table and leave them for dead in a bath of mixed tears three feet away from 55 year old strippers covered with stab scars, cigarette burns, stretch marks, electrical tape, and bandaids. We know where to find 45 year old strippers covered with stab scars, cigarette burns, stretch marks, electrical tape, and bandaids- within three minutes stumbling distance from our home- where our baby lives. We don't always eat dinner together, if we eat dinner at all. We've been naked in public, and we've done it more than once. We have scars with really good stories attached to them. We don't believe in baby gates. We know how to shotgun. We like punk rock, gangsta rap, and tattoos. We fight dirty. If someone effs with us, we eff back longer and harder and better. We've been crazy places. We've done crazy things. Oh, we've been places and done things, that's for sure.

These days when we find the time to do this nutty stuff between the work at work and the work at home and the work at life we make sure that Jake is somewhere well taken care of and loved and safe and fed and happy and we take it down a notch, because we are parents after all. And that's what good parents do.

And someday Jake will still think we are totally boring and nerdy and he is going to be embarrassed by us and he is going to think we don't understand and we don't know what he is doing with his friends on a Friday night. But he is in for it. Because we aren't always and we aren't completely and he will be and we do and we've done it. Because we are fit to be parents as a matter of fact. And we are damned good at it, if you ask me.

Happy day to Dave and all the other daddies out there. Thank you for the babies. You rock.