Discovering Fatherhood, with Owen Remi: Is two months too late

Sunday, November 16, 2008

Is two months too late

Every night I get ready for bed, I feel guilty for not updating this blog, especially after hearing from so many family and friends how much they look forward to updates. So much has happened in Owen's first 2 months, and I've been a bit overwhelmed with it. I keep hoping to find some time to put down all the thoughts that I've wanted to blog about, but I should've had a more realistic expectation of how time consuming fatherhood is. I guess this is one of my fatherhood discoveries. Everything you do is for the benefit of your child.

The first few weeks when Owen was home with us and received many visitors, we were trying to make the best environment for Owen and keep him happy. After the introductions to friends and family passed, I took on full time gig. I've been working long hard hours and I know I'm to tired at night when I get home to blog anything coherent.

I know this blog is not only important for me, but I hope my son Owen will appreciate it some day. For me it would be nice to have a diary from my parents of their parenthood experiences to use as a guide of what to expect. Seeing so much of myself in Owen, I think we were probably pretty similar babies. That being said, I will make it a priority to bring you all up to speed. Below are the topics I will be blogging about in the future.

· Coming Home
· Introductions
· BRIS
· 2 Week Growth Spurt
· How about a SMILE
· First Real bath
· Mimi's Visit
· Frustration

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Welcome... now here's the reason to stay tuned

Welcome to Owen’s Father’s Blog, Discovering Fatherhood, with Owen Remi Rabinowitz. I’m going to share with you the basics so you’ll want to follow along and can jump right in with some interest.

I have always been somewhat a techie gadget guy, and have made technology and computers my career for the past few years. However I’m not the geek who would have a blog. I wouldn't even want to read a blog. I’m sure many of you who I know and have told to check out my blog have little interest in visiting this site more than one time. Thanks for reading this far, I know I wouldn’t.

However, something happened to me this week that not only compelled me to start my first blog, but might make me interested in other father’s blogs. Ok, not really, but maybe if I knew that person and they were going to be as open and honest about the experience as I plan to be here.

Openness and honesty is not something I love to do, but I think I’ve found the perfect reason to try. My first child came into the world this week of September 2008.

Despite what every father I knew told me, I didn’t think the event would be worth much more than email to more than the most limited family and friends. I kept hearing how wonderful fatherhood was. People constantly asked me if I was excited.

While my wife got to grow attached to this thing growing inside her, I continued about my business in every sense of the word. I didn’t think fatherhood was going to be remarkable for me. I thought it might have some moments of delight, but also a great deal of frustration. This may still come to be, but the event has affected me much more than I expected. I hope you find the same with the content I share with you here.

To get the full story, you'll need to start with the first posting Waiting for it to Happen and work your way back. Otherwise, I'm sure you'll get plenty out of jumping in with the most recent post here at the top of the page.