Today my second child officially turns 21 years old. It’s another milestone in being a parent and watching a child grow to an adult. This reminded me of a spreadsheet that I created when I realized that, on my 43rd birthday my oldest son was exactly half my age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It’s not a difficult calculation: Determine the difference in age in days between your child and yourself, multiply that by two, and add that onto your Childs age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When determining my all my kids’ 2x birthdays (TwiceDays? Triple-Quad-D aka Double-Dad-Days?) I went ahead to find out when those dates existed for my parents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For my Father our PairDemiJour is June 21, 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For my Mother our HalfMomMirror is September 28, 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In all this birth date calculation I learned that I fathered my first 4 children earlier than my parents fathered me. Nothing to brag about, numbers do that for themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, the point? Maybe to create another special day that bonds parents with their children? Maybe. I just think when I rolled the cosmic dice and realized that on my 43rd birthday I’d be twice the age of my firstborn it was a gift from myself half-my-life away that I was glad to discover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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