On behalf of CarseatBlog, Heather and I would like to wish a Happy Father’s Day to Darren and all the awesome dads out there! Extra bonus points are awarded to all stay-at-home dads, dads who know how to use a cloth diaper correctly, dads who allow pink/purple/flowery or “mooing” carseats in their car, dads who actually hear the baby in the middle of the night AND get up to help, dads of teenagers, dads of teenagers who are learning how to drive and want to borrow YOUR car every 5 minutes, and dads with spouses who spend countless hours on the car-seat.org forums. We salute you all!
We especially want to thank and pay tribute to our fearless leader, Darren Qunell. Without his passion and visionary leadership, there would be no Car-Seat.org community or CarseatBlog.com.
So, what can we say about Darren? Well, for starters, he’s smart and funny and articulate. He’s more diplomatic than a delegation from the UN but he’s not afraid to lay down the “Admin” smack when necessary. He’s man enough to attend mommy-blogger events with his head held high! He has to deal with hundreds of women every day and he still pretends to love his job! He truly cares about protecting kids (his, ours and everyone else’s ) from unintentional injury. He sacrifices his free time to review all the latest and greatest CRs and vehicles for the benefit of our readers. But most importantly – he owes this spectacular Father’s Day tribute to his lovely DW and his 3 awesome kids! 🙂
Feel free to embarrass him even further by leaving a comment!
Ah yes, the voice. I wasn’t sure how dh was going to react the first time he heard Darren’s voice. And the disappearing/reappearing facial hair–he changes his facial hair more than a woman changes hairstyles!
Yeah, Eugene Levy DOES have a sexy voice.
Also, there’s his sexy voice to make all teh ladies drool over his car seat unboxing and review vids. You KNOW that’s why they get so many hits. :p
You forgot to mention his self-depricating sense of humor (check his avatar if you’re not sure what I mean!)
Happy Father’s Day Darren!
Aw, shucks! Thanks!
Funny thing is DW just left this morning for a seminar and I have the kids the whole week! Well, my mom is in town so that will help:-)
I have to admit, while I had no problem with staying-at-home or foofy covers on carseats, I drew the line at cloth diapers. Anything soiled becomes disposable in my book. In fact, the one night DW figured it would be OK to leave pajama bottoms off DS in only a diaper in his pack and play without pajama bottoms, the pack and play was discarded the next day (she had gone to work before DS woke up). I don’t need to go over the details, but you know that mesh material on the sides? Yeah. Disposable.
Also, while this was my passion and consumed a lot of my free time for many, many years, it has evolved over the last couple years into essentially being part of a business. So, even though it’s sort of a job in a way now, I still love it!
Well, I’m off to pickup my dad so he can join us for a Father’s day lunch. Happy Father’s Day to all the dads who are reading!