I have great parents.

all these

I have great parents.

They were great parents to grow up around.

I have all these wonderful memories from when I was a little kid but during

my high school years I remember in particular writing to school with my mom every day and

writing home with her every day and processing how the day went and the emotional stuff.

You know, it's high school. You can imagine all the things that are going on in my life and

having her be there and present, she was my music teacher, so we were at the same

school all day and having her with her finger on the pulse of things was wonderful and I miss those car rides with her.

With dad in addition to all the memories of sports and throwing the ball around, like dads and sons do,

one of the biggest things that I remember being awesome about his parenting was the idea ball that we used to play three or four nights a week.

We would stay up super late, we're both night people, and one of us would put an idea in

play with a medium to aggressive idea serve and then the other one would hit it back and

then you get this rhythm going and I saw this amazing 38 shot tennis point a couple

days ago on YouTube.

That's incredible just how controlled and disciplined

both guys are.

They want the other person to hit the ball back a little bit.

And it's not until we've really worked that ball over that it's maybe time to consider looking to put one away.

And dad had such, no, he has such a great sense of how to workshop an idea and what tone to strike when processing an idea.

And even now when I go back and hang out at mom and dad's place for holidays or just visiting or whatever when we stay up late,

...