Thirty Amazing Things About My Son Who Turns 30 Today

  • He is deeply empathetic and genuinely cares about people
  • He’s a super involved father
  • He understands science and math and the world on a conceptual level
  • He isn’t afraid to speak up for someone who needs it
  • He accepts everyone exactly as they are
  • He is married to his highschool sweetheart
  • He always says sweet things about her when she isn’t around
  • He is adventerous
  • There isn’t a food he won’t try
  • While visiting somewhere new, he refuses to eat at any restaurant he could go to at home
  • He’s an excellent cook
  • He reads to his daughters
  • He loves his grandparents and communicates with them regularly
  • He’s calm under pressure
  • He never went through a “my parents embarrass me” phase
  • On a group outing at the age of 10, he saved his sack lunch to give to the homeless man we’d passed on the way there
  • He’s always been my video game buddy
  • He is super creative
  • His skills as a D&D DM rival those of any fiction novelist
  • He is musical
  • He has a freaky good ear for sounds and tones and can hear things nobody else can hear
  • For example, if he hears loose change drop on the ground, he can tell you exactly how much it is
  • He can fix things
  • His sense of humor cracks me up
  • He is kind
  • He has the ability to look beyond the surface level of any given situation
  • He has a broad perspective of life in general
  • He loves his family with everything in him
  • He memorizes random and ridiculous things
  • He is the best kid ever (except for Jesus)