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Dear Jack: Our 1st Time Hosting a Super Bowl Party at Our House in Alabama

14 years, 3 months.

Dear Jack,

A week before the Super Bowl this year, we realized we didn’t actually have plans. So we solved that problem by hosting a small party at our house this year.

This is something we have never done before!

But it came together quite effortlessly.

The only real challenge was figuring out how to watch the Super Bowl on our TV. You heard Mommy and I discussing it. Less than two minutes later, you walked over to us and announced, “Okay, I set it up now.

You mumbled something about downloading an app on our TV, then creating a login and password… I think.

It’s convenient having a 14 year-old boy around!

As for the Super Bowl, your favorite part was watching Kendrick Lamar perform at the Halftime Show. Afterwards, you slept through the second half of the game.

Love,

Daddy

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Dear Holly: Your Cactus Valentine’s Box

8 years, 9 months.

Dear Holly,

I love that you randomly decided to make a cactus for your Valentine’s Day box for school.

You have always loved drawing; especially since you were old enough to start going on YouTube to learn how to draw whatever you thought of.

As I look at your cactus, she clearly looks like a female cactus version of you. I know that’s a funny sentence, but it’s true!

It was very clever how you thought to use a flower as her bow.

I think your cactus creation is really going to stand out in your class this Friday for Valentine’s Day!

Love,

Daddy

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Dear Jack: How You Spent Your Christmas Gift Card

14 years, 3 months.

Dear Jack,

After your sister spent Cousin Matt’s Christmas gift card on a Lego set, you were inspired to spend yours as well.

You came back home with a random medley of items that a 14 year-old, in theory, would not be likely to spend free money on.

You used your gift card to buy a small shovel to attach onto the front of one of your remote control cars, so that you could run it into some ceramic garden mushroom decorations.

Also from the garden section, you bought a solar-powered pig to use as target practice with your BB gun.

And that’s how my 14 year-old son spent the last of his Christmas money.

Seems like something you would do.

Love,

Daddy

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Dear Holly: We Bought Wicked

8 years, 9 months.

Dear Holly,

Mommy and I were considering taking you and your cousin Darla to go see Wicked, but there just wasn’t really a weekend we could work it into the schedule.

But for $30, we were able to just download it so we can watch it as many times as we want.

So this past weekend, you and Darla started out by making a “candy salad”; which apparently was a collection of various types of gummy candies.

With the movie being nearly 3 hours long, and the weather being sunny and in the 70s, about an hour into the movie, you both asked, “Can we go play outside?”

And you did.

Love,

Daddy

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Dear Holly: A Lego Baby

8 years, 9 months.

Dear Holly,

Christmas was over a month ago now, but thanks to your cousin Matt’s gift card he gave you, this week you got to pick out your final Christmas gift of 2024.

You chose a Lego set that included a daddy, a mommy, and… a tiny little Lego baby.

Seriously, I have never seen a Lego baby before!

Not only did you put the set together all by myself, but you curated a little Lego town in the corner of our living room to play with all week.

With that being said, I learned I’m still not past the point in being a parent where I step on Lego blocks in the middle of the night, when I wake up to use the bathroom but don’t bother to turn on the light!

Love,

Daddy