It’s Tuesday.  Well as most of you know, I’m up early and getting ready to catch a plane to California for a couple days.  Really I will only be there for one day and then it’s the long haul back.  And as many of you may disagree with me, that in itself is sort of a positive thing to me.  I’m headed out there to help Kristin’s dad load up some of his things and bring them from the house he’s selling out there to his house out here, and I realized that I have never really told you about him on here.  So here goes.

When Kristin and I met her dad was a pretty intimidating guy.  He didn’t say much and I could tell the idea of a long haired guy with earrings and tattoos starting to date his daughter was not high on his ‘favorite things to do’ list.  The first little bit of us getting to know each other was just that.  Getting to know each other.  I started to learn about his interests and he started to learn mine.  Then when I started talking marriage his only question was “do you have a job?”.  Fair enough.  At that point I think there was still a little skepticism, but his openness to me and what Kristin wanted was stronger than his justified fear of me screwing things up pretty bad.  After a couple years of still getting to know each other and living life as a family, I threw him another curve ball and told him that not only was I going to quit my comfortable, county job answering 911, but I was going to move his daughter and (at the time) two grandkids across the country to ‘work for a band’.  He still managed to not point a gun at me or anything like that.  Rather he supported what we thought was right and moved out to be next to us a year later.

All that to say, I’ve thrown him some pretty crazy things over the years and he’s dealt with them all in stride.  That impresses me more than I could say and makes me even more happy that we have all boys.  He’s a great father-in-law and amazing grandpa.  I couldn’t have asked for better.  So as I spend the next few days in the truck with Kristin’s dad, I thought I’d introduce you to him.  And who knows, by the end of the trip he might have a blog and be on Twitter.

So, as most of you know today is Positive Post Tuesday. The rules are simple.  Write something nice on your blog and join the party.  This week Raquel is hosting the party at her place so head over there and join in. It’s time to make this thing massive so everyone needs to get involved. Ready? Go.