Celebrating a small win - got dad of the year

Okay this is silly but my 9-year-old made me a "dad of the year" certificate on construction paper during a rainy afternoon at my place. Spelled "year" as "yeer" and everything.

We'd just had a rough few weeks - missed one of his soccer games because of work, his mom had been bad-mouthing me (he told me), and I felt pretty defeated as a father.

But then he's like "you still take me to ice cream and you taught me to throw a curveball so you win."

Weird how one dumb piece of paper can shift your whole perspective lol. This job is hard but some days the small stuff just... hits different.