MormonDaddyBlogs — 2012 June

Bedhead Dads

June 16, 2012 by Dennis

A new blog, Bedhead Moms, encourages women to accept themselves for everything they are, a terrific and much-needed message that we whole-heartedly agree with. But what does it have to do with a blog about Mormon dads? Well, as it turns out, this week they’ve turned their attention to us. (This sort of thing happens a lot around this time every year. No idea why, but we think it is pretty great.)

In their “Bedhead Dad” series, Bedhead Moms introduces us via a collection of photo essays to a wide range of dads who share two things in common: their faith and their complete devotion to their families.

There’s The Cool Dad, who just welcomed a baby into his home after years of struggle, including an adoption that fell through.
There’s the Part Time SAHD (Stay at Home Dad), a photographer who also helps feed his family by turning nearly every square inch of the lot of his Southern California home into something his family can consume in Providing More Than Money.
There’s the distribution manager for a major motion picture studio who loves those small, unforgettable occasions with his children in Enjoying the Moment.

Bedhead Moms has capped their Bedhead Dads week with a beautifully produced video tribute to fathers that is both funny and warm, Dear Dad.

Bedhead Moms was created by Wendy Santiano, who is married to Rod Santiano, whose terrific cinematography blog we’ve featured many times on MDB. We welcome Bedhead Moms to the blogging community and wish them every success.

Filed Under: Featured, Parenting, Relationships Tagged With: Bedhead Dads, Bedhead Moms, roderick santiano, Wendy Santiano

Club Unicorn

June 10, 2012 by Dennis

We’ve featured amusing and clever blog posts by Josh Weed a few times before on MDB.

But this weekend, his blog took a more serious turn and has created something of a stir (2,046 comments and counting as of this writing).

Josh and his wife, Lolly, are celebrating their 10th anniversary (normally associated with tin and aluminum gifts) with a weekend away, including taking in the show, The Blue Man Group (which they really enjoyed, by the way) and publishing for the first time a dual Josh-and-Lolly post about something they’d never shared with their blog readers before.

Typically, such a declaration would be followed by a denouncement and hurt feelings on one side or the other, if not both. Here, there is only a call for love.

Regardless of where you stand on this frequently polarizing issue, this is a timely, sensitively written post that would be well worth your time reading.

Consider joining Josh and Lolly’s Club Unicorn.

Filed Under: Featured, Professionals, Relationships Tagged With: gay, homosexuality, Josh Weed, marriage

The Revenge of Scoutmaster Henry

June 2, 2012 by Dennis

Call it “The Revenge of Scoutmaster Henry.”

When Topher Clark was a scout, he had a leader named Roger Henry. Here’s how he describes the love-hate relationship between the scouts and Bro. Henry.

“We loved him because he was a former surf dude and drove a classic red MG, and we hated him because he made us do scouting things we disliked and he called us on all of our bull. He never let us get away with anything. Whenever we were too lazy to, say, put up a tent or roll-up a sleeping bag he would tell us that the tooth fairy wasn’t going to do it for us, and would wait until we did it. I think if I met Roger today he and I would be great friends, but at age thirteen boys are naturally distrustful of any adult who is more awesome than they are. I remember feeling that it was our job to be awesome, and that the adult’s responsibility was to be gullible, fat, allowing, and to roll up our sleeping bags.”

It was because of the Bro. Henrys of this world that Topher went on to become an Eagle Scout and somehow survive adolescence. But that doesn’t mean the scouts went soft on Bro. Henry. Topher goes on to describe one particularly memorable encounter with Bro. Henry involving mud, a Smurf, and a bolo tie.

It’s just one many engaging posts on a relatively new blog called Part Time Authors, described as “a conversation between four friends about life, fatherhood, what makes us laugh and what makes us tick.”

But back to Bro. Henry, who ended up getting the last laugh, as I suppose all former scoutmasters do. Writes Topher, “And now I have spent almost ten years in the young men’s program myself, and Karma sucks!”

Read the full account of Topher’s encounter with Bro. Henry in Scouting for Trouble.