Life as a Dad

I have now been a dad for 3 years and 2 months. While this by no means qualifies me as a professional, I have certainly learned a great deal over that time, and continue to learn more by the minute.
I never imagined that I would one day be a working dad. Somehow in my young mind, I figured that I would stay at home with my children while they were young. But life takes unexpected turns, and I now find myself as a working dad while my endlessly patient wife stays at home raising our 2 boys. I do not make a great living. I make enough money to pay our bills, albeit barely, put delicious food on the table for my family, and occasionally do something leisurely.
It is not easy. In fact, I would say that being a working dad is more of a challenge than anything that has come before me. I have lost a mother, a brother, grandparents, and friends. Those difficulties, in hindsight, have paled in comparison to the difficulty of supporting a family and trying to be the most positive, inspirational, unconditionally loving father and husband I can be to my two sons and my wife.
So that is the purpose of this blog. I aim to reflect on life as a dad and as a husband--with honesty and a sense of purpose--that purpose being to become a better person, and make the world immediately around me (as in my home) a better place for those who live in it. My hope is that I will inspire other fathers to do the same. For we are an odd group--men who desire to be better at our most important jobs--caring for our partners and our children unabashedly and without excuse.