My blog just turned 3!

Yesterday was our son’s 18th airplane ride. I’ve made a point to take a quick photo of him on each trip.

Time Magazine, August 17, 1997. Bill Gates had just made a $150M investment in Apple, likely preventing the company from entering bankruptcy protection.  Today, for the first time in either company’s history, Apple’s market capitalization exceeded that of Microsoft.  

They say that life all comes down to just a few moments. This was one of them.  

Fisherman’s Terminal

A Day with My Son

For the West Coast, I think I put in some pretty respectable hours at work. My wife takes care of our son and our home. I refer to her as CEO of Fatzinger, Inc., as she is, in actuality, the boss, but also because she has a job far more difficult than mine. That of managing the lives of two boys separated in age by 38 years. For the most part, I come back in to the world of my wife and son when his day has only a few hours left in it.  

Today, as my wife was out with friends, I got to spend almost the entire day with him.  Just father and son. It’s not that I don’t spend time with him. Most of our evenings and all our weekends include the three of us, give or take a couple of hours here and there. I’ve spent only two nights away from him in his 15 months.

One-on-one is different.  A dad needs a day with his boy every once in a while. A boy needs a day with his dad every once in a while.  

During our trip to the Museum of Flight, we wandered. I tried to tell him what I knew about aircraft. He pushed a lot of buttons. We had some lunch together. I bought him a children’s book about airplanes. 

In the book I wrote a little note on the inside cover. I thanked him for this day, May 1, 2010. The day we watched the planes, went to the museum, had lunch, took a nap, played around the house, then waited on the porch for mommy to come home.

A day he’ll probably never remember. A day I’ll never forget.