Why start a blog? Why do it now? Easy, there is no time like the present. At the risk of quoting myself: “To mean to do something, without action, is meaningless.” This is a line that came to me while I was preparing my mother’s funeral eulogy, for her funeral on May 1st of 2019. To be perfectly honest, I haven’t felt like preparing many things since then.
I’ve always thought New Year’s Day was an extremely overrated holiday, but this year was different. 2019 was a full year. Tons of joy, excitement, changes, challenges and tremendous sadness. When the calendar turned to 2020, I felt a weird pull to go do something good and share my story, really our story as a family.
I consider myself the most blessed person I know. I have an amazing wife (Michelle) four incredible children (Trent, Lydia, Matea and Malix). All kids change your life, but Malix REALLY changed our life. Malix was born on November 2, 2016. Just so happens the Cubs won the World Series that day!!! It also just so happens he has Down Syndrome. It also just so happens he needed a major heart surgery shortly after birth.
The past 3 years have been challenging, stressful, but incredible. I want to use this blog to process it all and share some insightful, funny, crazy stories along the way.
Please follow below and I promise you the content will be enjoyable, insightful and maybe a little bit funny.
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