Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Countdown T-Minus 5 days (MAYBE????) and counting...

5 Days to go....  At least I hope so.  I understand that being a father is going to change my life, DRAMATICALLY, but I am excited/scared (Pick which emotion depending on the person I am talking to at the time.)  I think we are going to have our last date night this Friday which should be fun.  I am excited about getting a big meal and and some wine and maybe a movie with the wife one last time before the "Boy" gets here.  I am also excited about stopping this "cleanse".  It hasn't been too bad.  I haven't eaten any solid food since Monday, but I really haven't been that hungry and I have lost 6 pounds in 3 days.  Good stuff.  Anyway, off to bed.  Busy day tomorrow...

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Countdown T-Minus 6 days (MAYBE) and counting...

I am on Day two of this blog, Day two of this body "Cleanse", and six days away from being a father.  Life is interesting right now to say the least... 

So the wife has had about 20 contractions today.  I think the "boy" may be wanting to come a little early but I hope he waits a little bit longer.  I am planning on stopping this body cleanse also known as the, "Don't eat. Give yourself a bad case of diarrhea. Then drink lemonade with cayenne pepper in it." I plan on stopping the body cleanse because I realized that this is the last weekend OF MY LIFE that I won't have a child.  So hopefully me and the guys can get together for at least one more night of stupidity.  We will see...

Now off to help the wife and get the house in order...

Monday, August 2, 2010

Countdown T-Minus 7 days and counting...

In seven days... I will be a (gasp!) Dad.  I am not sure if this is something that I am ready for but is any guy ever ready for this?  But before I go into a long spiel about how my life is about to change, lets talk about the here and now.

I am happily married to my beautiful wife and we have two dogs.  We live in an awesome house, in an awesome neighborhood in the "Bible Belt" of the great USA.  I own my own business and my wife works for a local hospital.  We have an average middle class life.  We do what we want, when we want, most of the time. Life is good...

Now back to the baby...

This baby was a "surpise" to the both of us.  But we had been married for over a year, had already been to Europe twice last year, and had gotten to do most of the things we wanted to do, so we decided that we would give this parenting thing a try. (There wasn't any talk about not having the baby. There was just time for us to adjust to the reality in front of us.)  Fast forward nine months and here we are... 7 days until induction, unless the little man decides to come out early.

I am preparing for the coming child by finishing up chores and tasks around the house to keep the "nesting" instinct of my wife to a minimum.  Along with that I decided to jump start my "sympathy weight" fat loss plan with a cleanse.  I am using "MASTER CLEANSE".  It is an app on the iPhone and it requires me to drink a 32 oz. saltwater cleanse and then to drink "lemonade" all day.  Needless to say that after the colon explosion of the saltwater cleanse I am less than excited to drink the so called lemonade.  The next few days should be interesting...