Looking for bright spots in all this. I don’t remember the last time this happened. Special shoutout to doing @gonoodle with my kids for helping make this happen.
🍿 Just watched Knives Out. If you’re looking for something good to watch as you’re distant socially, I would highly recommend.
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Music has a way of calming me down in a way I need right now. Two of my all time favorites have new singles out today, and they’re freaking great. I hope they make you as happy as they’re making me as I work from home today.
Feeling super blessed that my wife and I both have jobs where it’s easy to work from home. We are in a much better position than many right now, and I do not take that lightly.
I am discovering that I tend to just sit with my hands on my face. So that’s great.
Happy Leap Day! Don’t forget to wear your blue and yellow, eat your rhubarb, and to watch the Leap Dave Williams marathon. Nothing that happens on Leap Day counts! Real life is for March!
Apple Music Replay: New year, same story.
📺 I haven’t seen many people in the Apple community talking about Mythic Quest Raven’s Banquet in Apple TV+, but my wife and I are 7 episodes in, and are really enjoying it.
My day has officially been made.
My valentine from my almost 6-year-old featuring an AT-AT from Star Wars. Why she chose to call me by my first name is another discussion, but this still makes my heart warm today.
Me: Girls, who are you cheering for in the Super Bowl, the Chiefs or the 49ers?
5.5-year-old: The Chiefs because Moana’s dad was a chief.
So there you have it folks. Moana decides the Super Bowl. 🏈
Now that I’m finally allowed to post pictures of my kids, I can’t let twitter’s #girldad trend go by without saying that being dad to these two is the best. Hard a lot of days because we’re all human, but I wouldn’t trade it for anything.
Only in Nashville can you just happen upon puppeteers from the public library and Ketch Secor of Old Crow Medicine Show performing his children’s book “Lorraine.” I love this city.
🎵 Jonas Brothers - What a Man Gotta Do
JoBros bringing another bop.
That’s what the kids would say, right?
Introducing my daughters, Wesleigh Brooks McClellan and Parker Joy McClellan. Finally.
I’ll post more pictures and thoughts as they come, but for now enjoy this one as well as our adoption video by Robbie Hall.
🎵 Hamilton - Original Broadway Cast Recording
Listening to the Hamilton Cast Recording for the first time in several months while I work today. Over 4 years since its release, it still gets me every time.
In January I set a goal of earning all 12 Apple Activity Challenge badges. I did not factor in what it would be like to have a baby in July and didn’t know I would start a new job in the fall. So I didn’t meet my goal, and I’m perfectly ok with it.
Day 1 with the Series 0
Series 0’s final day
Series 3 Day 1
Last day of Series 3, first with Series 5.
While I would kill to see The Rise of Skywalker again in theaters, as a Dad of small kids that isn’t likely to happen. However, I did get to see Frozen 2 a second time, and it totally holds up.
In attempts to teach our girls how to spell McClellan so they’re prepared when we adopt them (hopefully next month), I wrote a song and taught it to them tonight. It…didn’t go great on night one. There are just so many Ls.
Mistakes were made, and I have ended up at a mall on December 22. If I don’t make it out alive, it’s been nice knowing you all.
🔗 Apple Arcade for the Holidays - Matt Birchler
I know this may not ever happen, but it really would be nice to be able to pay a flat fee to get some of these games to own forever outside the subscription.
I would do this in a heartbeat.
🎵 Harry Styles - Juice (Lizzo cover) in the Live Lounge
Everything about this performance makes me happy.
🔗 Trump Should Be Removed from Office - Christianity Today
But the facts in this instance are unambiguous: The president of the United States attempted to use his political power to coerce a foreign leader to harass and discredit one of the president’s political opponents. That is not only a violation of the Constitution; more importantly, it is profoundly immoral.
So thankful to finally see evangelical institutions beginning to take a stand. It should have happened a long time ago, and more should be doing it. But this is a good thing.
I have seen The Rise of Skywalker. That is all I will say…for now.