Fehling Parents

Our 2018, frantically summed up by one tie-dyed, body part-clutching, family Christmas photo. Happy Holidays from the Fehlings! https://www.instagram.com/p/Br1avNbBZgI/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=6m1cki1lgvu4

YOU GUYS. https://www.instagram.com/p/Brysj70B0Bf/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=16kjnbih9it5z

Nothing says holidays like watching Home Alone with your family, falling asleep next to your uncle and waking up with said uncle’s rookie card stuck to your face. I swear this isn’t staged. Crying. 🤣🤣🤣 https://www.instagram.com/p/BrwSsLQheCr/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=j6hte8vxqg3w

Griswold SZN (at Movement Mortgage) https://www.instagram.com/p/BrX_ij-hBHr/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=idqqqch2vqy7

Mood(s). https://www.instagram.com/p/BrRAepnBY19/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1jrkwl76z2mul

Your clubhouse leader for Fehling Family Thanksgiving photo outtakes. https://www.instagram.com/p/BqgMBGTBYN-/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=b4nxn36avlfj

The last time I drove from Chicago to North Carolina, I was 23 and leaving an internship with the U.S. Golf Association. I had no job, wife, or kids, but I had a sweet XTerra to carry me those 13 merciless hours...and an even sweeter $350/month car payment. Fifteen years later, I just made that same trek again...plus a wife, three kids and a $350 rental car. While I am far better off today than I was in 2003, when June started puking at hour 11, I wondered if that truly was the case... 🤮 Why on earth would Page and I subject ourselves to such an absurd drive? Well, as we sat in Rows 23-24 of ORD-CLT last night with three insane children, a mechanical issue and "no idea when we'll take off at this point, sorry," we figured renting a car and driving as far as we could was as good an idea as any. 🤔 We somehow made it to Cincinnati (shout out to @sam.niemeyer and @niemeyem45!) last night, and then crushed the remaining eight hours today. Three Taco Bells and only two Harry Potter audiobook chapters later (before we wanted to murder the British narrator and his God forsaken overacting), we pulled into Charlotte. 👑🏙 Yes, we probably should have stayed on the plane. Yes, June really did puke. Yes, it started snowing almost immediately and made for a decidedly miserable drive last night. No, we don't regret the decision. 🌨 The kids will say that Chicago was fine. *eye roll* We know better, though. They spent some serious QT with extended family. They shared the Bulls court with a rehabbing Dirk Novitzki (thanks, @tonyhyde007!). They mean-mugged their reflection on "The Bean." They absolutely HAMMERED Chicago. And yet somehow, we'll probably remember the drive home most vividly. 🏀🐐 So yes, random lady in West Virginia, I really do want you to take a family picture of us in a Taco Bell parking lot. Aside from the return of the Beefy Crunch Burrito, this is as good as it gets. https://www.instagram.com/p/BqJY6C_BzRY/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1tdkr1b5l72i8

Christmas Miracle. (at Ravinia Green Country Club) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqBIl4eh_PC/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1jkckw7o53fk6

#prayforchicago (at Chicago O'Hare International Airport) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bp98SsHhNuN/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=t8z9t5z74zx

Happy Night Before Windowless Van Halloween! https://www.instagram.com/p/Bpk8HMrg1tV/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=j8shuy7ht0kz

Tailgate June: Activated. • • • #keeppounding #panthers #carolina #nfl #carolinapanthers #gopanthers #football #newera #charlotte #clt #qc https://www.instagram.com/p/BpemGh4gtuj/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1j5w6t9f4c6k

A boy hit me in the head with a jump rope. I hit my face on the table. I slammed my fingers in the door. My shoes gave me a blister. These sandwich crumbs on my lip burn. Cal touched me. Phyllis looked at me. A mild breeze grazed my elbow. ALL of the above necessitates 3-4 bandaids. It’s still early, but I think it’s safe to say June has inherited her Mom’s clumsiness and her Dad’s dramatics. https://www.instagram.com/p/Bn-DeVng78V/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=gb7n1lk3uzah

Meet your Marvin, NC news team. Covering #hurricaneflorence like no other. On local cable access channel 487. 💨 Ford “I’m the Best” Fehling will be stationed at his family compound lake bringing us weather updates, one, because he was too lazy to volunteer for a role in the field, and two because he requested to be “close to a closet” because he “heard that hurricanes can cause fire tornados.” 🔥🌪 Cal “Yes I’m 8 and I Have Emphysema” Fehling will be reporting live from the Waverly strip mall, asking hard hitting questions of Whole Foods shoppers like “If the power goes out, HOW WILL YOU LIVE WITHOUT YOUR JENI’S ICE CREAM?” 💣🍨 Finally, we’ve got star reporter June “MomMomMomMomDadDadDadDadDadDad” Fehling in our featured role, bringing you all the headlines that the big journalists and stations like @pagefehling and @fox46charlotte miss. 👱🏻‍♀️👎 Be sure to tune in tonight to hear about one Marvin father left alone by his wife to parent their three insane children and dog named after an elderly woman. You won’t believe what happens next. Spoiler alert: the power goes out, he tries and fails to work a generator for the first time, and he feeds his children bread sandwiches. You should pray for him. 🙏 Thanks for watching! (at Marvin, North Carolina) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bnt931ZHRlS/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1dv8ttw8jhmk9

Since 2009 my mornings have been a mad dash to get to work by 9 a.m. There has always been at least one daycare or school to hit, and in many years two. Those mornings almost always include yelling, tears and about a billion “hurry ups.” Weeellllllp, this morning marked the first morning of “real school” for all three kids. No more day care. No more multiple stops. No more 💸. On top of all of that, the bus comes at 6:52 a.m. every morning so I’ll be at my desk by 7:15 a.m. I won’t know what to do with myself. It’s life changing. The yelling should hopefully decrease...same for the tears. And for at least one morning I made sure to avoid the hurry ups as well. Even a guy that makes fun of his kids on social media can be a softy every now then, and this morning was one of those times. Man, I wish I could slow this clock down. Happy first day, Fehling kiddos. Go crush it.

June, eat your vegetables. • June, try one carrot. • Fine, you can have dessert.

And just like that, after a full sprint back to the bathroom to get his ticket lanyard, the Fudgeman is off on his first unaccompanied flight...and by the looks of the end of this video, already being grabbed by strangers. 🤦🏻‍♂️ *opens tequilla* #prayforjakeandpage (at Charlotte Douglas International Airport)

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