Author: Dad
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I Love You to the Moon
For every scroll saw project that I work on, I am going to create a new post to provide the recipient with some additional information about their project and why I chose to do what I did. I am fairly new to scroll sawing and reached out on Facebook to see if anyone was interested…
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So Good To Me
I’m the type of person that doesn’t really care all that much about movies or books. Unless the movies or books will give me some knowledge or self-improvement tips about something that I’m interested in, I tend to not care that much about them. To give you an example, I love reading books about angels…
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American Christian
I have this battle raging inside of me. Like a never-ending war where no matter what I do, the war will not be won or lost. My entire life, I have been a Christian. I grew up in the church, first a Catholic, then a Baptist, then a non-denominational, then a Methodist, then back to…
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Effects of Kids on My Marriage (Part 5 of Birth Story Series)
At some point before we were married, I told Kacie I didn’t want to have kids. I looked at my three older sisters and the impact that kids had on their relationships and decided that wasn’t for me. Not that they had bad relationships or anything, just the commitment it takes from both sides to…
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Effects of Children on Me (Part 4 of Birth Story series)
I am the youngest of 4 in my family. Growing up, I did not get to see how my parents handled things when a newborn was around, I didn’t actively pursue learning much about life with a newborn, and I was completely unprepared as a father and a husband. I mean, I read a couple…
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Postpartum (Part 3 of Birth Story Series)
Shortly before our first child was born, a friend of mine had told me to watch out for postpartum depression. I didn’t really know what he was talking about and was quick to forget that he even mentioned it because my wife has never suffered from depression before, at least to my knowledge at the…
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Miscarriage (Part 2 of Birth Story series)
According to the Mayo Clinic, about 10 to 20 percent of known pregnancies end in miscarriage. And according to the World Health Organization, there are around 211 million pregnancies in a year. This results in 21 million to 42 million miscarriages every year. That is a staggering number and one I wish I knew more…
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Arise
I love to read the Bible. I find it fascinating the amount of history that can be found. Even if you don’t believe any of the stories in the Bible, there are still a ton of facts about civilization, humanity, and creation from when the stories were written. For example, we know that the Egyptians…
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Sienna’s Birth Story
Sienna’s Birth Story Sienna’s Birth Story — Read on thepattavinas.home.blog/2019/08/02/siennas-birth-story/ This is my wife’s birth story.
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Light of the World
A few years back, I decided I wanted to write some short stories based off of some people that were on the receiving end of one of Jesus’ miracles and then witnessing Him being killed on the cross. This is the first of those stories. To be honest, this very short story took me about…
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Birth Story – Male Perspective (Part 1)
I’m the husband of a beautiful wife and mother to my three children. We have had 1 hospital birth and 2 home births. We have a 4 year old boy, a 2 year old girl, and a 2 week old girl. People have been having children since Adam and Eve but I have never heard…
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Scroll Sawing
I have taken up a new hobby, one that some call the sewing of woodworking. I had been searching for something that fits me in the life stage that I’m in right now and something that I would enjoy doing without causing too much frustration or hassle -> enter the scroll saw. I was first…