Nine Months
This is a blog about the next nine months, from May 2006 until mid-January and maybe right into February. You see, my wife, the Missus, is expecting our fourth baby. How amazing and what a surprise! It struck me the other day that I should keep track of this time, because that’s something I didn’t do while the Missus was carrying our other three.
But it still may not be obvious why I want to start a blog just about this little bit of time. The best blogs, or rather those I enjoy most, are all very focused. Their authors do allow for some variation and what-not, meandering through whatever catches their attention. I hope I achieve that here. I also want to keep track of what goes on during the pregnancy, from my point of view. I want to help my memory along. I want a place to keep my memories. But as a Dad, what happens during a pregnancy? I’m wondering about that, too. I think this blog will help to find that out.
I also want to share this time, so that’s why a blog and not simply a journal. A journal might be better in some respects. It has a romantic charm and writing, the physical act of it, pen on paper, is so much less serious than typing. I don’t know if it’s the sound of the clickety-clack keys or the fact I can’t pull my hair out and type at the some time, but typing is solemn business.
I suppose I will keep an old fashioned journal as this blog’s basis. That would make this blog my paper journal’s front porch, so come sit a while. Let me know who you are. I think the next nine months will be very… interesting and blessed, too.
My friend…I have been such a blog voyeur today, reading bits and pieces of your thoughts while cooking and chasing my little one. Well, not so little; he’s three and a little over half as tall as me.
What a wonderful surprise to find your Christmas card in the mail today (such beautiful children). Congratulations to you both about your almost-her new baby!
Sarah, so good to see you here. I’m glad you enjoyed the card. We thought it was particularly funny that the card design got in front of Spotz, our middle child.
Hee, Hee, October is nearly as tall as the Missus, of course October is older than your little one… Yeah, I always felt like a giant next to you.
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