Welcome, Palmetto Parents 🌴 

We are Daniel and Courtney Berk.

This is our beautiful baby boy (old picture, but irresistible), and we have a second boy on the way.

Parenting is rewarding, difficult, exciting, scary.

Parenting is this fun, adventurous, beautiful melting pot of trial and error, fake-it-till-you-make-it chaos that gives life a whole new meaning.

And just when you finally sort of figure out what you’re doing, your baby becomes a toddler; your 5th grader goes to middle school; your teenager starts driving

And you’re right back at square one — clueless, but along for the ride.

Enter: Palmetto Parents.

Palmetto Parents was an idea that came to life as the stars aligned in a busy season of life.

Daniel works at beehiiv (the platform that powers this newsletter, website, and everything in it!). He loves newsletters.

Courtney is a Mom, writer, local baker, and heavily involved in Summerville groups for parents.

Together, we both love Summerville.

While Palmetto Parents is a simple newsletter for now, our hope is that is can become so much more. We hope it will eventually bring families together for an actual IRL community, with events, meetups, and more.

You can view this weekly newsletter as phase one.

We aren’t sure what shape this will take yet, but we’re excited to see it grow and become a trustable source for parents to learn more about Summerville and find more local parents and families to connect with.