Greetings from the New Fatherhood Blogger

My name is Kevin Delp, and I’ve recently joined the ranks of bloggers here at families.com as the man responsible for the Fathers’ section. I’d like to take the opportunity to tell you a little about myself. I’m happily married to my college sweetheart and wife of eleven years, Valorie. Together we have managed to survive (so far… knock on wood) raising five children. I’ve certainly had some interesting “daddy adventures” in my brief career of being a father, and I’m not foolish enough (anymore) to think that I know or have seen it all as a dad. When I’m … Continue reading

A Morning Without

Since I’ve been taking care of our son during the day I haven’t really been able to schedule things like doctor appointments (or a much needed eyeglasses upgrade) during the day. Taking our son along for the ride, while acceptable, wouldn’t bode well for hour long incarcerations in waiting rooms full of nearsighted (or ill people). These types of activities would have to be scheduled when Mom had a day off. Finally Mom did. Dad scheduled these appointments all on the same day so that he could make sure to get everything done so that the little man didn’t have … Continue reading

The Trouble With Twins

If you have any of my blogs in the past, you probably know that I have five kids, and that the last two came as a matching pair two years ago. Now my twins are not identical, (they are in fact fraternal) but they look awfully similar. In fact if they are not standing side by side together, I have to be no further than five or six feet away to tell them apart. Even then, if I am looking at the first twin Emily, I’m not really sure who it is that I’m looking at. If the other twin, … Continue reading