I often read the the last page of a magazine first (with the exception of The Week, where I read the Real Estate page in the middle first). So I had to smile when I read the last page of this month’s New York Family Magazine first, and discovered this delightful piece by Scott Ambrose Reilly, a New York City dad:
Our son Dexter was born in 2002, and ever since I find myself doing things I never would have even thought about in the 90s or before. I’m not a sports guy, but I go to baseball and basketball games. I’ve given up red meat; I took a fencing class; I’ve been to more art museums in the last ten years than my whole life prior. I play Risk and Monopoly often and poker rarely. I spend most evenings at home and get up at 6am to pack a vegetarian lunch. I remember when the only time I saw 6am was leaving an all-night poker game or a particularly eventful party. I have two road trips planned for this summer: One to Indianapolis for the Pokémon National Championships and one to Washington, D.C., for the Pokémon World Championships. I do this all because my best friend is a 12-year-old vegetarian Poké-Master who likes basketball, baseball, fencing, art, board games, comic books, and—of course—the Pokémon card game.
Here’s to all the things we never imagined ourselves doing until we had kids.
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