Two Years Ago Today

by Michael Mistak on March 25, 2011

One of the main reasons I started blogging was to have a record of John’s entry into this world including:

  • my wife’s initial premature labor (at 26 weeks)
  • her bed rest after the doctors were able to stop here initial premature labor
  • John’s Birth (at 28 weeks), and
  • his stay in the NICU (including his first surgery).

Two years ago today marked the beginning of the first of the milestones above (something I first wrote about last year): [click to continue…]

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What would you do if you had $100K to do it? (Part 2)

by Michael Mistak on March 10, 2011

As I stated in yesterday’s post I recently threw my hat into the ring as a competitor in Dockers® Wear the Pants™ Project. The intention of this contest is to provides someone that has a “big plan” but hasn’t had the time or resources to get it done, the funding and resources to realize their plan.

In my post yesterday I provided my plan:

I want to increase my efforts to advocate and raise money for charities related to premature birth and related complications. My son was born at 28wks gestation. His first 52days of life were spent in the hospital. His first surgery took place when he was just over 1mo old. I want to resume training for triathlons and other endurance events while blogging about my training and my son’s progress.

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What would you do if you had $100K to do it?

March 9, 2011

Last night I decided to pull the trigger on my idea to participate in Dockers® Wear the Pants™ Project. Instead of trying to describe the contest, I’ll let their video do it for me: Here is my proposal: I want to increase my efforts to advocate and raise money for charities related to premature birth [...]

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Training Plan Confessional: Forgive this father for I’ve been lazy…

March 4, 2011

(Spoiler alert: my penance will hopefully be of a benefit to raising funds for the March for Babies) Forgive me readers for I’ve been lazy. Its been weeks since I’ve completed a full week’s planned workouts. Unfortunately in some cases getting in one of my workouts has been an accomplishment. Unfortunately up till this point [...]

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Remembering What’s Important

February 24, 2011

In an individual’s life there are those random moments that return you to remembering what’s important and how far life’s journey has taken you down a path that you could have never imagined before. For all of the things people blame on the internet, I wish that people would recognize those stories you happen upon [...]

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Wordless Wednesday 8/18/2010

August 18, 2010
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Wondering What’s Going on in Your Kid’s Head

August 1, 2010

It seems to be a normal desire. The desire to know whats going on in your child’s head. What are they thinking? Why are they behaving the way that they are? For some parents the desire to know whats going on in your child’s head takes on an entirely different dynamic.

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Recap: What you don’t want to hear from your wife when she’s 26-weeks pregnant

April 21, 2010

The following is my first post recapping Jess’ initial premature labor, her subsequent bedrest, John’s birth and his stay in the NICU. “Something doesn’t feel right.” I’m not sure those were her actual words.  In fact they probably weren’t.  The actual words weren’t all that important. What was important at that point was that it [...]

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Until I had something to say…

April 7, 2010

For a number of years I have considered writing my own blog. At various times I thought I had something to contribute to “the series of tubes”. This thought was usually brought on by a temporary surge of ego that was soon squashed by reality: A realization that I am not the next Jeffrey Zeldman (Web Design / [...]

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