Father of the Year

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  • Putting on the Ritz

     

     

    There's nothing to make your heart explode in your chest like seeing your son in his first tux.

     

     

    And your daughter her first time as a flower girl. My cousin Eileen just got married last weekend at a mansion off of Fifth Avenue (turned into her Catholic school).  The kids fit right in with the painted ceilings and intricate woodwork.  Chet danced up and down the massive marble staircase like one of the Nicholas Brothers in the 1930s. 

     

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  • Back in the Thick of It

     

    This was our first week with our new arrangement and all in all it's been going pretty well.  The hardest part has been Chet. After a month in Georgia with his mother and grandmother it's been a little hard for him up here.  He just said that the huge log home in the woods on a lake where they live is his real home.  He's also been asking me, repeatedly, if I had to choose between A and him and his sister who would I pick.  

     

    I'm not sure how much of that is him just being a natural-born actor and how much of it is real.  He is playful and wonderful around A and of course it's hard for him to believe me when I say that A and I are planning on being together forever.  With Cristina, my previous girlfriend, who lived in Italy, the kids never had any real competition for my day-to-day affection.  Now A is here half the week but she is a very steady presence in our lives  so of course there will be some growing pains.  It's just that my amazing little seven-yearp-old shoots off the hardest questions to answer.

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  • I'm Such a Sap

     

     

     

    I can't believe how clean their room is when they're not in it.  And I can't believe how I much I miss those loud, (sometimes) pains in the asses. I'm having a deep and wonderful time here with just A and M and I'm spending some alone time just with M so A can write and that has been a treat, but I really, really miss my other kids too.  I'm flying to Georgia on Tuesday for Chet's birthday and just can't wait to wrestle him, can't wait to squeeze Ava till she giggles.  This is the only time of the year that I'm away from them so long and I know it's good for them to spend time with their mom and grandma and I know it's good for us three to get a little break from each other, but geez. It hurts.

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Arthur Bradford

Trey Ellis in Manhattan

The author of Bedtimes Stories: Adventures in the Land of Single-Fatherhood, Trey is busy raising his school-aged girl and boy in New York City. When he’s not shuttling them to public school, he is a novelist, screenwriter, political blogger on the HuffingtonPost and film professor. Visit his website here.

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