Crunchy Dads Choose Butterpies In my real life, I have a wife, a one-year-old boy, and a two-year-old girl that occupy my attention approximately 100% of the time. Yes, even if I'm soldering or hacking or tinkering or writing, I'm usually thinking about them. As a nerd, I feel somewhat sheepish admitting this, though I know there are plenty of other nerdy dads out there, so...

My wife has this parenting site called Butterpies.com. "Butterpies" is not a reference to pies made out of butter, as good as that sounds. It's what our older daughter called butterflies when she was just learning to talk. I mention it here for a couple reasons. One, I hope it will drive some traffic that way. Look at it, link to it. Two, I write stuff there on occasion about making cheese with our kids and doing DC with kids. Three, I hope it will explain why this site is such an intermittent mess; not because I'm writing masterpieces there, but because of the whole two-kids-under-two thing.

Keeping a site like that makes me think a lot about how we live, and how we parent. So we're learning how do for ourselves, and how to accumulate less crap, because that's what we'd like our kids to see us doing. Heck, that's what I'd like to see myself doing: making more, fixing more, growing more, doing more, wasting less, and doing it all with my kids. It appeals to both the nerd and the dad.

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