Category: kids

• Daily Prompt 5/26/23

  I also want to say that I have no possessions that matter as much as the people and pets in my house. But that’s inaccurate. There are a few things that I wouldn’t want to lose, like my computer with all of my writing from the past 2.5 years. I also wouldn’t want to lose…

  zanderham13

  26th May 2023

  daily prompt, kids, Life, Raw, The Real Me

  dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1947

• Daily Prompt 5/20/23

  I have sacrificed the best years of my life, my sanity, my health, my fitness, time with my kids, relationships with friends, and so many other things. Military life is all about sacrifice, but so is being raise as a people pleaser. You sacrifice your own happiness for everyone else’s comfort. It’s exhausting and never…

  zanderham13

  20th May 2023

  daily prompt, kids, Life, Memories, Mental Health, Raw, The Real Me

  dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1941

• My kid got me sick

  In fact, he infected all but one of the current 7 members of the household. Boy #2 infected us and Boy #3 is the only one who hasn’t gotten sick at all. Girl was the first one to go down with a bad sore throat. Then my wife, the Ex, and I all went down…

  zanderham13

  6th May 2023

  kids, Life, my soccer team stories

  family

• Boy #1

  Things are starting to fall into place for him. He found out today that he has been accepted into a pre-mortuary sciences program about three or so hours from where we live. What a huge relief. Not that I didn’t believe in him and not that I didn’t think he could do it. But it…

  zanderham13

  1st May 2023

  inspiration, kids, Life, music, Raw, relationships

  boy, college, family, music

• Daily Prompt 4/28/23

  People I admire and look to for advice…this is a moving target for me because my life is such a strange collection of completely different things, the list grows and shrinks as time goes on. But no matter what, my number one is my wife. I admire her for a million and one different reasons…

  zanderham13

  28th April 2023

  daily prompt, inspiration, kids, Life, Raw, relationships, The Real Me

  dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1928

• Boy #2

  Boy #2 is about to be 17 on Thursday. This feels impossible because it’s gone by so fast. It’s also crazy to think that he’s THISCLOSE to being an adult. In some ways he’s ready for more responsibility and in other ways, he’s still very much a child. He’s changed a lot since Boy #1…

  zanderham13

  25th April 2023

  kids, Life, Raw, relationships

  family, Mental Health, trauma

• The Past

  Things have been tough here with our guests, Boy #1 and the Squatter. Boy #1 had a tough life. Growing up, he required so much attention and time. It was exhausting. He can still be exhausting. He fights with so much more than anyone I know. He has been diagnosed with so many things like…

  zanderham13

  23rd April 2023

  kids, Life, Mental Health, Raw, relationships

  family, Mental Health, trauma

• Soccer Starts Now

  Today is our first soccer practice. Naturally it’s cold after being comfortable and even hot the past two weeks or so. It’s so annoying. Our first game on Saturday is due to be a rainy one if the weather forecast holds up. How annoying! I don’t need it to be hot or anything, just a…

  zanderham13

  18th April 2023

  kids, mentoring, my soccer team stories

  soccer, youth coaching

• Soccer Roster

  I got my roster last night for the soccer team I coach. I have eight of the same kids, and it seems like four aren’t playing with this league this season. One was assigned somewhere else, but I’m not sure if she requested to be on a team with a friend. Of the eight returnees,…

  zanderham13

  10th April 2023

  kids, Life, Mental Health, my soccer team stories, Raw, relationships, The Real Me

  anxiety, depression, Mental Health, soccer, suicide, translife, trauma

• Work Ethic

  Boy #1 has no work ethic. I hate saying it. I tried so hard with him. He’s always been…slow. Slow to follow directions, slow to take care of what he needs to, slow to grasp what the hell is going on around him. He got fired from his fast food job last night. At McDonald’s.…

  zanderham13

  8th April 2023

  kids, Life, Mental Health, mentoring, people watching, Raw, relationships

  adhd, family, Mental Health