Author: Mark

One of the perks of my full-time job at Chase bank is I have 4 weeks of vacation. When Niko was born, I took 2 weeks of vacation along with 2 weeks of paternity leave.  But, it was no vacation as caring for a newborn baby requires all day and all night attention.  And, for…

One year ago today, Nina and I made the announcement to the Facebook and Twitter universe that we were pregnant (ok, I wasn’t pregnant but I helped with it).  Our announcement wasn’t anything spectacular like you see these days.  I wore a t-shirt that said THE MAN BEHIND THE BUMP and Nina wore a little skeleton on the…

Last Saturday, Nina and Niko came to a St. Anthony football game with me.  In case you didn’t know, I am a freelance writer and photographer and my current gig is St. Anthony football. St. Anthony is a private Catholic school in San Antonio.  I covered St. Anthony basketball games in 2013, 2014, and this…

Besides being a daddy to an almost 6 month old baby, I am also a high school football writer/photographer for St. Anthony football.  Of course, when I am at a football game, I miss Nina and Niko and whenever I see a baby, I always smile and have an urge to cradle them in my…

Yesterday (10/10), Nina and I celebrated 6 years of marriage and we didn’t do anything spectacular or even leave the house.  It was actually a very pleasant day at home in our pajamas and we enjoyed each other and of course Niko (and, I can’t forget the loudest thing and the thing that gets the…