Grady Behrens

Big picture thinker. Love Jesus. Love people. Love the wife of my youth. Love my daughters. “Grady, you’re an exclamation point.” - @cbehrens24

[Grady Behrens @GreatDayGrady]

4yo who really doesn’t trust dogs:

“Maybe dogs sometimes bite people because we have bones. Dogs like to chew on bones!”

“maybe they can smell the bones inside?”

“maybe the dog was at a dr appointment and saw an X-ray and knows we have bones inside?”

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My children are bobbing for apples on the porch. One is wearing a Christmas sweater, the other is wearing a swimsuit. Welcome to autumn.

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Look. We should all just acknowledge that it is socially acceptable to pick your nose in the car. I see it ALL the time. I do it. Let's just say it's OK already.

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@richvillodas Trying to stay focused on prayer for 15 seconds, meanwhile fond memories of a brisket I made back in 2011 floating through my mind (It was glorious, praise be to God most high). All part of that deeply formed life.

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@CBehrens24 Says the woman who married a man whose favorite color is pink.

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All along, I talked to myself (inside my head) to keep track. In conclusion, I just dropped off a new lunch for my youngest because I mixed up the lunch bags when I put them into their respective backpacks.

[Grady Behrens @GreatDayGrady]

One might think I’m disorganized, but that’s not really it. Today I made lunches for my two daughters, whose preferences I know very well. I mentally noted which lunch was to my left and to my right as I assembled. I even told myself, “that way you won’t mix them up.”

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I put lids on the lunches labeled with their respective initials. I put those lunches in lunch bags making sure to put the left lunch, marked with the correct initial, into the bag with the button sewn on. Then I put the lunch bags in their unique backpacks.

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@CBehrens24 I can be your Unicorn of simple pleasure tho

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I have made my children listen to #daftpunk for years. It’s paying off. This morning, they’ve decided to be cleaning robots while we listen to human after all remixes.

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Fwiw, the freedom to vote act introduced by dems, as muddy as it is, would theoretically address this type of gerrymandering. But we shouldn’t need a federal law to enact fair representation at a state level. We can be better than that.

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The NY proposed redistricting is embarrassing to our state. Really the whole process. Voters wanted a bipartisan redistricting process for 2022. We voted in a commission to do so, with no teeth such that eventually the legislature could make their own map.

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In other words, rather than ensure state residents are equally represented (read the 14th amendment), we’ll just wage a national partisan battle, because it’s the winning that counts.

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Shout out to sanitary workers at @RoyalCarting picking up the past few weeks of holiday recycling and garbage. You are much appreciated.

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@CBehrens24 Characters that didn’t age at all: Peter Pan

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Playing pretend @ our house

[5yo pulling 3yo in wagon]
3yo: Daddy, look! I’m going to visit my Uncle!
5yo: Yes, I’m a taxi driver in the city. She’s visiting me. My parents died so I’m the only one who is an adult and can take her to work. Died 20 years ago…
[drives away]

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This is a new phase in our life where I am the only one home for most of the day. So anyway…

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Pinnacle suburban life: I had to take the garbage to the curb and it was raining, so I drove it down in the car with one arm out the window. To be fair, I was already driving, so it was efficient.