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It\u2019s been a long time since I made a Dada post.\u00a0 It\u2019s been a long time since I\u2019ve actually taken the time to write, for the matter.\u00a0 It\u2019s not that I haven\u2019t wanted to write, I just simply have had no time to write, because my life is chaotic, my kids come first, been too busy, and it doesn\u2019t help that I\u2019m insufferably neurotic about having the right conditions to take the time to write.<\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019ve got a laundry list of topics that I want to write about, and it will be a challenge to retroactively try to get into the headspace necessary to write about them and try and fool my zero readers that they\u2019re fresh and happening when they did but it doesn\u2019t mean I won\u2019t try either.<\/span><\/p>\n But this post, at least, is about as a live and real-time, genuinely written on the day in which the thoughts formulated in my head, which is about as good of opportunity as any to get back on the writing horse and hope that it gets the ball rolling again to where I can also knock out some of the other things I\u2019ve wanted to blab about over the last few weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n One thing that I\u2019ve always looked forward to as a parent, was the day in which my kids\u2019 creativity developed to where they could start creating, things.\u00a0 Drawings, paintings, sculptures, whatever, but tangible things that they make from nothing.\u00a0 And over the last year and change now, with both of my kids in school, my kids are sent back home on the regular with papers of general scribbles and some developmentally appropriate artwork that they do, and me, being the sap that I am, have basically saved everything, no matter how inconsequential or scribbly they might look to others.\u00a0 They\u2019re my kids\u2019 first forays into artwork, and for the time being, I\u2019m hoarding them like I want to end up on TLC, and look forward to looking back at them with my kids in the near future.<\/span><\/p>\n But today, I come home from work, and when I\u2019m reading to #2 on the couch, #1 comes to me with a person made out of bristle blocks.\u00a0 She says, this is Dada<\/em>.\u00a0 Nobody notices it, but my lip immediately pouts for a second, because I\u2019m cracking just how touched I am at the seemingly innocuous gesture that means the world to me.\u00a0 Moments later, she comes back with another one, shorter, and says that this is me<\/em>, and puts it next to the Dada figure.\u00a0 I have to stop reading at this point because I\u2019m holding back tears at this point, because I\u2019m breaking in the best way possible, and my sniffles I try and act like it\u2019s the seasonal bug that\u2019s been passed around my household over the last week.<\/span><\/p>\n After I tell her how much I love them, she vanishes again, and minutes later comes back with yet another figure, the smallest one of the three, and says this is sissy<\/em>, and I\u2019m just about the happiest dad I\u2019ve felt in a few days at how much I love these kids, and marvel at just how much they seem to grow on a daily basis.<\/span><\/p>\n Naturally, #2 destroyed them before I could take a picture of them, but I\u2019m sure now that they\u2019ve gotten such a positive reaction from me, #1 will probably make them again, to which I will definitely require some photographic chronicling of such happy thoughts.<\/span><\/p>\n All the same, I\u2019m really looking forward to the day when my girls start making stuff like bracelets and necklaces, and I can\u2019t wait to wear colorful and vibrant accessories that don\u2019t match any of my office attire or anything else I wear, because fewer things will have more meaning and be more treasured on my person than the things that my own kids make, especially if they\u2019re meant for Dada.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s been a long time since I made a Dada post.\u00a0 It\u2019s been a long time since I\u2019ve actually taken the 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