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Thursday, 03 December 2009 00:00

Written by Joeprah

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Man, the weeks fly by during the holiday season. It feels like a Tuesday not a Thursday night. Anyways, I hope everyone had great Thanksgivings and spent some quality time with the family. Being with the family is the greatest form of team building I know. It gives us time to bring our children in front of a larger group that hopefully will only reinforce values that we feel strongly about within our own family environments. Tradition is a big part of the holidays too. Who cooks the turkey, who does the dishes, who yells at the TV as they watch the Lions play more like mascots than trained athletes are all part of the traditions that our children absorb. Even our neighborhood has a tradition--old guy football. We played old guy football Sunday this year instead of Thursday because the field was so muddy from all the rain we've been getting in Maryland.

Old guy football is awesome. I almost instantly hurt myself and played through it because, to me, playing football is a tremendous stress release. The pain in my groin began to subside after the first hour of play and it wasn't until later that night when I realized my entire body felt pain. It was general pain. Not like, ouch--you know what, my back hurts. Everywhere hurt. When I went to bed that night I couldn't sleep because my face hurt--not kidding. Anyways, after a couple days of mending I was fine. I found out on Wednesday though that one of my friends broke two of his fingers during warm up and played through it the entire game (two and a half hours). I felt lucky.

So, yeah--Fatherhood Friday. This week is all about tradition. That's the theme from here until the new year. Remember, themes are optional so don't feel obligated to write to the theme--just something to help you break the writers block.

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Now, onto Fatherhood Friday!

Post your links below--I will reincarnate the optional theme next week. So, as a warning--Fatherhood Friday themes are optional--don't get your panties in a bunch. Anyways, enjoy Fatherhood Friday as usual and have a great weekend!

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written by busy-dad-e, December 04, 2009

Happy Fatherhood Friday everyone! Don't Touch My Butt! (You'll see, I mean read.)

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written by ciara, December 04, 2009

funny this week's theme is traditions as i had posted a ff on sat about that. i guess this week is sort of part II so read the post before as well. I was gonna cheat and just link up last week's post lol

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written by Daddy Files, December 04, 2009

This is my ode to Tiger and how the hypocritical jerk can go f*ck himself.

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written by johncaveosborne, December 04, 2009

traditions have temporarily been blown up thanks to the explosion that is the Osborne triplets. however, the post i put up yesterday, coincidentally, concerned our difficult decision on whether or not to host Christmas dinner.