[audio http://www.adaptationtech.com/music_files/08%20Winter%20Song.mp3]

The Head and the Heart – Winter Song

After what totaled 5 Christmas centric parties, we finally made it to New Years, in what I call the “we’re just trying to stay up until Midnight” effort. This years event planning came with a little help from another pregnant couple to keep us company.  The thought of a 6 month pregnant chick in a club after overpaying for some crappy appetizers just didn’t seem like the best use of resources.  So what do you  do when only half a party can drink?  I’ll tell you what you do, you make a crap ton of food and spend the money that you were going to throw at an ill staffed all you drink event on some King Crab and Filet.  That way your ladies get to eat, and you feel slightly less intimidated by the fact that you’re still going to drink as much as you normally would.  I mean wine not? (that one was for a friend, he knows who he is).   So thanks to some great friends, great cooking (on my part), and Ryan Secerest, we were able to still see Midnight and get home to get a few hours of sleep for my CSN wife who had to work the next day.

In hopes that you don’t think that I’m now just a raving alcoholic, I will also include a few details as to how we spent the rest of our holiday time off…….SICK as dogs.  The week between Christmas and New Years we both had the attack of the stomach monster, as well as a pesky cold that somehow crept in while we were already sick with other symptoms.  My wife also had the experience of something like 5 tests all within a couple of days.  Fetal MRI’s, Echo Cardiograms (misspelled I’m sure), and then the ever so fun “drink this orange flavored sugary crap to see if you’re diabetic”  test.  The good news is that all is looking ok, and while that stupid mass of cells (that I’m going to continue to criticize throughout this blog) isn’t getting any bigger than her lungs are, we are still going to have to keep watch every couple of weeks like we thought.  So to wrap up an otherwise exhausting holiday sprint, we got to at least get a little bit of good news.  I wouldn’t say that it’s great news, but you gotta take what you can get.

With just 14 weeks left at the point these events took place, you’ve got to be asking “Hey Dad, when you are going to get that room painted?”  and “When are those great showers going to kick in?”, and “Hey, I really want to hear your uncomfortable experience with birthing classes.”  Oh you just wait folks.  Within the last two weeks we’ve loaded our calendars and already started with the efforts around the construction of her majesty’s castle.  You can look forward to another post about the ever growing pile of stuff to do in preparation for this little one later tonight.  Until then, enjoy some easy listening and I hope that you’re not watching too much football.  Also, apparently this is her first Rachel Zoe outfit whatever that means. I’m only posting it to try and vent now before I actually have to dress my child in something like this per her mother’s request.  The first time I hear “Put her in that cute furry vest thing with the sparkly pants…”, I’m calling on each and every one of you subscribers to remind me that yes I am a man, and no, you don’t have to know what shoes go well with this outfit.