Sharing
... or How Gracie and a VPN connection taught me an important lesson.
Barbara and Gracie are enjoying a week in Lynchburg with Grandma and Grandpa. I walked into her room a little while ago, and saw her neat little toddler bed all made up, with Lamby on the pillow. It was kind of sad.
I love my girls so much, it's hard when they go away for a while, even though I know they are having so much more fun playing in a real sandbox, running in real grass, and generally being doted on something fierce.
Barbara is the soul of this house, and Gracie is its smile. My wife makes it a warm, inviting place to come back to, and my daughter makes it a place where even a screen door can be a thing of wonder.
This house is just plain old quiet when they're gone.
For those who know me, it's no surprise that I've been working with Luke to build "Shipleynet," a giant network that spans from Illinois to Strasburg, Lynchburg to Limestone. The end result, hopefully, will be a place where we can all share the photos, home movies and music we enjoy.
But, networking seven computers over four networks is not small feat, and as such, it's about to drive me out of my mind. I was up until 3 a.m. today trying to put the first leg of the connection together. It's a major pain right now, but I know when it's done, it'll bring my family closer together and make a lot of people very happy.
It'll be worth it.
So is sharing my family with others for a while. Yeah, it's hard. It's sad to see things right where I left them when I come back home from work. I've come to appreciated chaos in my two years as a parent. But sharing the two most wonderful things in my life brings so much joy to other people, it'd be a sin to keep them to myself all the time.
Thus, I plod along, from waffles to hot pockets and back, knowing that the entire city of Lynchburg is that much brighter because my girls are there, sharing the light and love that they share with me every day.
It's humbling when a two-year-old teaches you a lesson. It's that much more humbling when she does it and she's not even in the same zip code...
Barbara and Gracie are enjoying a week in Lynchburg with Grandma and Grandpa. I walked into her room a little while ago, and saw her neat little toddler bed all made up, with Lamby on the pillow. It was kind of sad.
I love my girls so much, it's hard when they go away for a while, even though I know they are having so much more fun playing in a real sandbox, running in real grass, and generally being doted on something fierce.
Barbara is the soul of this house, and Gracie is its smile. My wife makes it a warm, inviting place to come back to, and my daughter makes it a place where even a screen door can be a thing of wonder.
This house is just plain old quiet when they're gone.
For those who know me, it's no surprise that I've been working with Luke to build "Shipleynet," a giant network that spans from Illinois to Strasburg, Lynchburg to Limestone. The end result, hopefully, will be a place where we can all share the photos, home movies and music we enjoy.
But, networking seven computers over four networks is not small feat, and as such, it's about to drive me out of my mind. I was up until 3 a.m. today trying to put the first leg of the connection together. It's a major pain right now, but I know when it's done, it'll bring my family closer together and make a lot of people very happy.
It'll be worth it.
So is sharing my family with others for a while. Yeah, it's hard. It's sad to see things right where I left them when I come back home from work. I've come to appreciated chaos in my two years as a parent. But sharing the two most wonderful things in my life brings so much joy to other people, it'd be a sin to keep them to myself all the time.
Thus, I plod along, from waffles to hot pockets and back, knowing that the entire city of Lynchburg is that much brighter because my girls are there, sharing the light and love that they share with me every day.
It's humbling when a two-year-old teaches you a lesson. It's that much more humbling when she does it and she's not even in the same zip code...
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