Well, Laravel Podcast Season Four is finally wrapped up! I also got back to streaming and have been working on finalizing plans for my new podcast and Laravel Podcast Season Five.
Summer is also very close, so I'm making plans for what I'll be doing with the kids. Soccer, trips... probably nothing indoors yet.
Some old big news
You may have picked this up from my subtle hints and casual references to half-time parenting and solo time with my kids, but last summer my wife and I divorced and since then the kids
have been with me almost half time. I kept wanting to say something about it on Twitter, but... how do you talk about that? Casually? Deeply emotionally? I don't know, so I just never say anything. 🤷♂️
No need to send me consoling responses, although I love knowing that some of you will anyway. The past year was very hard, but it was for everyone, and I'm having a great time with my kids and looking forward to a trip to see my family in Michigan this summer and some more trips to cabins in the Georgia mountains.
I could write more about the process of divorce--the lead-up, the experience, the life after--but it's hard to know what to share, and how, and when. Mainly, I just know that I no longer want to have to dance around sharing information
that reveals the fact that I've been legally divorced for almost a year and divorced-in-spirit for longer than a year (divorces are legal processes so they take time; the legal date comes long after the effective date.)
Yep. That's it for that topic, I think. Sounds sad, and it is and has been, but today I'm doing better than I have been in years, no joke. And this new podcast... it's gonna be freaking amazing. I cannot wait, y'all.