Three

Three years ago today, I was preparing to become a husband to my beautiful bride. In less than three months from now, I will be a father to the newest member of our family... Well, his name will be announced then. I'm officially in my third decade of life. Mel and I were born three months apart.

For many aspects of our life three seems to be quite relevant. Over the next year of our married life we'll be embarking on SO many new and exciting things! We are anxiously awaiting our little one and I know that I am excited to meet him. Surreal seems to hardly cover it.

I think the most difficult thing I face in writing this blog... is whether to focus on my emotions of becoming a father, or to reflect on what it is to be a husband to my precious wife. I don't know how to do both simultaneously AND effectively. I suppose that's an important challenge to realize as we learn about our newly developing roles as parents - how to tend to our own relationship while concurrently tending to the relationship of parent/child, and family unit.

We've decided to take today in stride. Nothing huge. No blowout budget decisions. Perhaps a nice dinner, and a postponed pottery painting date next week.

We have a lot on our plates these days and our focus is trying to organize our life right now so that we can prepare for being disorganized come October :-) I know that things will never be perfect - we are just working as a team to whittle these mountains down to molehills; one stone at a time. The great thing is... we're making progress! The nursery is looking more and more ready to receive things (rather than just store stuff which it has done for 3 yrs). The office is... well... it's still a work in progress, but it IS better! :-) And Salvation Army? Well... let's just say that it is a good thing that they're an army because we're about to give them a lot. :-D

Yay for tax write-offs!

We'll see what the day holds! I'll try to post an update :-) (But, we all know that I'm not the avid blogger right now... so, we'll see).

Greg