Showing posts with label Daddy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Daddy. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 25, 2019
Saturday, December 14, 2019
Up and at em at State
We are up and at em. Getting ready to get breakfast and head to the school. Should be a good day.
#BrazierChildren #FirstLegoRobotics #MarcusRobotics2019
#BrazierChildren #FirstLegoRobotics #MarcusRobotics2019
Monday, September 30, 2019
Monday Musings: How do I protect my children and let them be free?
There are days where all you want is just to shield your children from the world. Just wrap them in a cocoon and not let anything near them that could hurt them. Being a Xenial parent, I want me kids to have an active childhood like I did, but also learn to appreciate technology like I did. It's just that there are so many bad people in the world and all I want is to keep them safe.
Every time I turn around there is a new threat out there that could hurt my children. Sex trafficking, deadly diseases in mosquitoes, cyber bullies, pedophiles, school shootings, and a country that seems to celebrate hating people who are different.
How do I protect them and yet let them be free to grow into their own people? How do I prepare them for a world that has more dangers than I ever realized? How do I prepare my daughter for a world where rapists get away with it if they are good students? How do I prepare my sons for a world that hates on those who don't fit the mold? How do I prepare myself for all the pain and heartache that is going to come the older they get?
I want them to be them, but I want to keep them safe, and I don't know how to go about that properly. So I just keep taking it a day at a time, trying to live by example and mold them without forcing them.
I pray I am doing a good job, but only time will tell, and I'm not very good with waiting.
#MondayMusings #BrazierChildren
Every time I turn around there is a new threat out there that could hurt my children. Sex trafficking, deadly diseases in mosquitoes, cyber bullies, pedophiles, school shootings, and a country that seems to celebrate hating people who are different.
How do I protect them and yet let them be free to grow into their own people? How do I prepare them for a world that has more dangers than I ever realized? How do I prepare my daughter for a world where rapists get away with it if they are good students? How do I prepare my sons for a world that hates on those who don't fit the mold? How do I prepare myself for all the pain and heartache that is going to come the older they get?
I want them to be them, but I want to keep them safe, and I don't know how to go about that properly. So I just keep taking it a day at a time, trying to live by example and mold them without forcing them.
I pray I am doing a good job, but only time will tell, and I'm not very good with waiting.
#MondayMusings #BrazierChildren
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
Monday, September 23, 2019
Monday Musings, Being a parent with chronic pain
Being a parent, with chronic pain, is the hardest job I have ever had.
This weekend, had Elliot in town, and I spent half of Saturday in bed with a migraine, and part of Sunday in my recliner with my right arm numb or cramping.
Yesterday, Oswald crawled through a tight space to get away from me while playing, so without thinking I just crawled right after him and hurt my hip and both my knees.
So hard sometimes, when the pain is raging, to not lose control and scream at the children. The pain removes all the filters you build up as parents, or at least makes them super thin and easily breakable.
There is pain medication, but it's expensive and I easily become dependant on it just to survive. There's alternatives like CBD, but that also costs money that I just don't have.
I try so hard to be a good level headed Dad. I try so hard to not let them see me suffer too much, and to not let the pain affect how I treat them. I try so hard to be the model parent they need me to be. I just hope it's working.
#BrazierChildren #MondayMusings
This weekend, had Elliot in town, and I spent half of Saturday in bed with a migraine, and part of Sunday in my recliner with my right arm numb or cramping.
Yesterday, Oswald crawled through a tight space to get away from me while playing, so without thinking I just crawled right after him and hurt my hip and both my knees.
So hard sometimes, when the pain is raging, to not lose control and scream at the children. The pain removes all the filters you build up as parents, or at least makes them super thin and easily breakable.
There is pain medication, but it's expensive and I easily become dependant on it just to survive. There's alternatives like CBD, but that also costs money that I just don't have.
I try so hard to be a good level headed Dad. I try so hard to not let them see me suffer too much, and to not let the pain affect how I treat them. I try so hard to be the model parent they need me to be. I just hope it's working.
#BrazierChildren #MondayMusings
Tuesday, May 21, 2019
Reminder
We interrupt our normally scheduled post to bring you this:
If you want to see my children, Marcus, Analyse, Elliot, or Oswald (or even Rylee), you will message me directly to figure out a time. I can not garauntee it will be the exact time you want as I work a lot, and I cannot garauntee where we will meet as it depends on the mental health state of the family at that time.
Do not message Paige or any other family members, message this page or me (Byron) directly.
Thank you for your time.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled show.
If you want to see my children, Marcus, Analyse, Elliot, or Oswald (or even Rylee), you will message me directly to figure out a time. I can not garauntee it will be the exact time you want as I work a lot, and I cannot garauntee where we will meet as it depends on the mental health state of the family at that time.
Do not message Paige or any other family members, message this page or me (Byron) directly.
Thank you for your time.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled show.
Thursday, May 16, 2019
Throwback Thursday: Analyse Thinks Daddy is crazy
Today we bring you one of Daddies all time favorite videos of him and Analyse.
#BrazierChildren #ThrowBackThursday
#BrazierChildren #ThrowBackThursday
Tuesday, May 14, 2019
YouTube Tuesday: The BrazierParents #Every6Months video
Congratulations,
you get a chance to go watch our video, aren't you excited?
Mamma Paige and Daddy made a video together, first of many to come.
Now yes, it is a long video, however, if you watch it on a computer (on YouTube itself), you can click the links in the description to jump to each question if you don't have time to watch the whole thing and need to come back to it and start where you left off. Plus, there are auto generated subtitles, that will be updated by this time tomorrow (5/13/18), so you can watch without volume if needed (at work or our voices annoy you).
So please,
go give it a watch,
subscribe,
comment,
like the video,
you know, all the things people do on YouTube to show people support.
Thanks, really appreciate it, you're the best.
B&P, The #BrazierParents
#BrazierChildren #YouTubeTuesday #Every6Months
you get a chance to go watch our video, aren't you excited?
Mamma Paige and Daddy made a video together, first of many to come.
Now yes, it is a long video, however, if you watch it on a computer (on YouTube itself), you can click the links in the description to jump to each question if you don't have time to watch the whole thing and need to come back to it and start where you left off. Plus, there are auto generated subtitles, that will be updated by this time tomorrow (5/13/18), so you can watch without volume if needed (at work or our voices annoy you).
So please,
go give it a watch,
subscribe,
comment,
like the video,
you know, all the things people do on YouTube to show people support.
Thanks, really appreciate it, you're the best.
B&P, The #BrazierParents
#BrazierChildren #YouTubeTuesday #Every6Months
Monday, May 13, 2019
Monday Musings: Age Gap
One of the things we had not planned for was just how big of an age gap 10 years is between children. Started realizing things about just how much will be going on in our lives when it comes to children in the next 10 to 15 years.
We will have a child in college, 2 in high school, and 1 in elementary school at the same time.
We will be doing weddings, graduations, and junior high at the same time.
We will most likely have grand children while we still have a child in high school.
We could have grand children in preschool while our youngest is still in college.
When I am my fathers current age, I will have a child still in their early 20's.
We are in for quite the journey with all of our children, and we are so excited for all of it.
-Daddy
#BrazierChildren #MondayMusings
We will have a child in college, 2 in high school, and 1 in elementary school at the same time.
We will be doing weddings, graduations, and junior high at the same time.
We will most likely have grand children while we still have a child in high school.
We could have grand children in preschool while our youngest is still in college.
When I am my fathers current age, I will have a child still in their early 20's.
We are in for quite the journey with all of our children, and we are so excited for all of it.
-Daddy
#BrazierChildren #MondayMusings
Tuesday, May 7, 2019
Saturday, April 27, 2019
Lazy Saturday: Cartoons and cuddles with Daddy
When Daddy wakes with a severe headache, Mamma Paige and Marcus go hang out for bonding time, and Oswald is a sleepy bub, you cuddle in Daddy's chair and watching Pink Panther for a nice #LazySaturday.
#BrazierChildren
#BrazierChildren
Thursday, April 25, 2019
Throw Back Thursday: Oswald and Daddy 2 years ago
Monday, April 22, 2019
Monday Musings: You're a better parent than you give yourself credit for
Every parent has moments when they look at the terrible way that their child is behaving and are absolutely convinced they are failing as a parent. You have no idea how they could act so spoiled or ungrateful or what have you. This is normal, and every parent goes through it. The key part of this is the fact that you notice this, and you act upon it to correct it. That is what shows that you aren't failing as a parent, because you actually care. Your confusion over how in the world they could be acting that way, means that you are doing what you can to raise them right. Children just be crazy sometimes. Okay, children be crazy often.
When they lash out like that, or act spoiled, or give you attitude and act shocked when you lash back out, it is just them pushing the boundaries to see what they can get away with. The more you let them get away with it, the more they will keep pushing. The worst part, is a few times of letting them get away with it, can undue a million times of not letting them, and now they think that's the norm. It's not fair to us as parents, it doesn't make any real sense, but it's life.
The occasional spoiling of a child, or choosing not to fight that particular battle is normal and good for yours and their mental health. We just have to make sure we don't get in the habit of giving in, or in the habit or overreacting and overcompensating when they do lash out.
It's a dangerous balance to keep, but you got this, I have faith in you.
-Daddy
#BrazierChildren #MondayMusings #DangerousBalance#ChildrenBeCrazy
When they lash out like that, or act spoiled, or give you attitude and act shocked when you lash back out, it is just them pushing the boundaries to see what they can get away with. The more you let them get away with it, the more they will keep pushing. The worst part, is a few times of letting them get away with it, can undue a million times of not letting them, and now they think that's the norm. It's not fair to us as parents, it doesn't make any real sense, but it's life.
The occasional spoiling of a child, or choosing not to fight that particular battle is normal and good for yours and their mental health. We just have to make sure we don't get in the habit of giving in, or in the habit or overreacting and overcompensating when they do lash out.
It's a dangerous balance to keep, but you got this, I have faith in you.
-Daddy
#BrazierChildren #MondayMusings #DangerousBalance#ChildrenBeCrazy
Thursday, April 18, 2019
Throwback Thursday: When Daddy and Uncle Brent built a boat
#ThrowBackThursday to 6 years ago when Daddy and Uncle Brent built a boat due to the massive flooding and being bored.
#BrazierChildren #WhenBoredBuildSomething
#BrazierChildren #WhenBoredBuildSomething
Monday, April 15, 2019
Monday Musings: Why do we start so early in the morning?
Good morning, I think. I'm sure it's morning, and technically it's not a bad morning, just not sure the word good every applies so mornings, let alone Mondays. No one wants to get up, everyone is still tired from the weekend, and school and work at the last things we want to be headed to today.
Why do we as a society do this to ourselves? Who decided that it was better to get up early and go to bed late? Why do we make children go to school early in the morning when their brains aren't even fully awake? Why we do rush off to work and have morning meetings when everyone is so groggy we all need coffee by the gallon?
We, the BrazierChildren and BrazierParents want to say that we fully endorse later nights and later mornings. We are well aware that implementing something like this woke happen because "that's just how the world works", but we endorse it none the less.
#BrazierChildren #MondayMusings #BrazierParents#LateNightsLateMornings
Why do we as a society do this to ourselves? Who decided that it was better to get up early and go to bed late? Why do we make children go to school early in the morning when their brains aren't even fully awake? Why we do rush off to work and have morning meetings when everyone is so groggy we all need coffee by the gallon?
We, the BrazierChildren and BrazierParents want to say that we fully endorse later nights and later mornings. We are well aware that implementing something like this woke happen because "that's just how the world works", but we endorse it none the less.
#BrazierChildren #MondayMusings #BrazierParents#LateNightsLateMornings
Saturday, April 13, 2019
Lazy Saturday: Daddy works on projects
Welcome to #LazySaturday where sometimes being lazy about life, means working on projects to escape.
#BrazierChildren #UpCyBz
#BrazierChildren #UpCyBz
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