chicagodads

A couple weeks ago, a bunch of friends from our church came with my wife, baby and I on a retreat to a tasty local restaurant (stop me if I already told this story). Since it was so danged cold, I decided that I should bring along my rarely-seen scarf (rarely seen because it matches absolutely nothing in my wardrobe. Or at least that’s what I think. We were there for a while when some other friends from our church - who were working with homeless people that frigid night - showed up. Started chatting it up with those from that group that we knew. I noticed and proclaimed that one of the guys, who is himself homeless, was blatantly wearing the very same red & blue flannel Target scarf that I was. Rather than just stand there and both look awkward at this genial faux-pas, we both pulled out our fencing swords and began to duel for the right to wear the crest.

(Okay, so I just made up that last sentence, but you get the picture.)

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I just found out this morning that there is another website called Chicago Dads . And, from what I could tell, it looks great. Informative, up-to-date, with several pages for forums, play-dates for the children, play-dates for the parents (I’m assuming that there’s nothing fishy there. Actually, it’s called something like “Fathers Night Out”. But even that sounds a bit fishy…), etc.

It’s a part of a larger nation-wide collective called AtHomeDad, which is a multi-page site about and for stay-at-home dads .

I’m going to register at the site and I’ll let you know what I find, eh?

*For more on the Awkward Turtle, read here.

** “Paul, My Turtle, says to make each day in 2008 a great one” by turtlemom4bacon on Flickr.

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