Flat Daddy

Yes, it is official, I HAVE LOST MY MIND. I have spent the last 10 years saying, "I wish he was here for...". I don't want him to miss a moment of our lives. Unfortunately, the Air Force thinks otherwise. The moment our first child was born, I vowed not to change what we did regardless if he was home or not. So we move on in his absence.

I wanted this deployment to be different though. I wanted him to be as connected as possible. I wanted the kids to have a way to express in their words what we did. I wanted it to be fun, something we could look back on and laugh about our memories. And the idea of flat daddy was born. I printed off an 8x10 copy, cut it out, and laminated him. Whenever we go some where the kids can take their picture with "him". We have made a scrapbook of our adventures. Each kid is responsible for their own page of their pictures. In the end, my hope is to have a chronicle of our adventures for him to keep.