Comments on: The keg of beer (annotated version)

By: mig

mig — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 07:41:55 +0000

thank you very much. i think very highly of francis as well.

By: zeynep

zeynep — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 03:31:25 +0000

Hi,
I just strarted reading your blog (because I just strarted reading Francis’ blog about learning Swedish and he speaks (uhm writes) very highly of you.
Your speech for your daughter’s graduation did not make me almost cry, it made finish a pack of kleenex ! Your wife knew how to choose a husband who would make an excellent father (and yes – am a married woman so all the credit goes to us at the end :)))
Thank you for sharing your life so beautifully
Zeynep

By: mig

mig — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 16:29:16 +0000

yes, the Dutch sometimes make me cry as well.

(I knew it’s H

By: beta

beta — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 15:36:49 +0000

i shouldn’t read these kinda things at work… i almost cried when a bunch of dutch people came in. i can only say thanks… and that i wished you had made that speech. but then i really would have had to remind you that it’s H

By: R J Keefe

R J Keefe — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 01:12:19 +0000

Lordy, this kindles grandparent fever. I am so ready to change diapers again. It has been thirty-five years, but my daughter has finally found a great guy, and, who knows.
Not a whisper to her about this, of course!

By: Zwiedawurzn

Zwiedawurzn — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 19:38:42 +0000

I agree, you gotta make the speech. And make sure Butterfly Kisses plays in the background :). It’s not fair, they grow up so fast! Congrats to both of you!

By: Bauke

Bauke — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 13:17:43 +0000

At least you can use parts of this speech when she gets married. Then you ARE allowed to embarrass her. It’s tradition… :-)

Kids growing up must be scary, but it sounds like you’ve done a good job. Apart from the drowning and headbutting the ceiling thing… ;-)

By: mig

mig — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 09:06:12 +0000

…but as to whether this is good fathering you’d have to ask Beta.

By: mig

mig — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 09:05:04 +0000

Here is the thing, I think, one thing, about parenting: you can stand beneath them when they go up the ladder, and you can wait at the bottom of the slide and catch them when they come down, but in between, up at the top, there is a little platform and you can stand only right or left but they could fall in either direction and you can only let them go and hope. That constant letting go is the scariest part.
Or part of the scariest part.
Or one of the parts of one of the scariest parts.

By: k.

k. — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 00:29:20 +0000

one – only one – of the reasons i’ve loved your blog since i first found it – whenever that was – is the beautiful, wonderful way you write about your children.

By: Jann

Jann — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 19:07:14 +0000

I have always thought very highly of men who are devoted to their children; and who are wise enough to guide their children to be the best persons they can be without imposing their own ideas on them nor trying to live vicariously through them. I think you qualify, mig! This is a wonderful testimonial to fatherhood.

Congratulations to Beta!

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 15:31:59 +0000

Supercool story, mig… here’s hoping I grow up to become as good of a father :-)

Congratulations to Beta!