Ok...here's the deal...

As many of you may or may not have noticed, my domain was dead for a few days. To make a long story short I got screwed by Yahoo Domains. They were giving me a hard time transfering my domain name over to my webhosting company so I cancelled my account with them. Well, unbeknownst to me they transferred my domain to another registrar without telling me and i had to wait until my domain registration expired before I could do anything about it. That was Friday. Thankfully I finally got everything straightened out and the site is back up.

Sort of...

I've been looking for a way to have more control over my blog and I wanted it to be hosted entirely by me rather than granting Blogger ftp access to the site. I finally found the right application and I am going to get all of the old posts back up over the next few days. Please bear with me until then. I've got some more baby news to post....so stay tuned!!!

- Jeremy

BTW...if anybody sent me email in the last few days PLEASE resend it as I never recieved any of it...THANKS!

K...

Erin and I had a doctor's appointment this past Friday. Being the geek father that I am I was ready with my new MP3 player to attempt to record the heart beat. The last time I failed miserably. I thought, hey...No big deal, I'll just record it this time, right?...WRONG!!!

As the doctor began to search for the heart beat, we held our breath and had our first really big mutual "oh shit" moment of the pregnancy. The last two times they found it right away and it was loud. Much to our great relief, after searching for a minute she found it. Apparently the baby moved down further into the uterus behind Erin's pubic bone. The heart beat was there and it was strong...but it was faint...waaaay too faint for me to record.

I swear. He/she is not even out of the womb and already it's "mess with daddy" time!

Other than that, baby and mommy are doing well. Erin's still battling nausea here and there, but she is certainly better than she was just a couple of weeks ago. The cute thing is that her tummy has started to pop out. Another week or two and she won't be able to hide it. :)

Anyway...I hope all is well for the half dozen people that actually read this.

- Jeremy

It's true what they say..."Life isn't measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. " I had one of those moments yesterday.

I heard the most beautiful sound. My baby's heart beating. This whole adventure has become more real than I could have imagined. The soft, quick beating of that tiny heart still echoes in my ears and I will never forget it.

- Jeremy

As most of you know Erin and I are going to be PARENTS!!! It was a bit of a surprise really. We had been seeing a feritility specialist since January of this year and after the first round we were told that we had to take a month off from the treatment. Quite understandably, we were not happy about this. Little did we suspect that anything could happen on an "off" month. Of course...that's when it happened.



The baby is due on November 24th...yes, that is Thanksgiving Day. It's funny, this kid must have a thing for holidays. We found out on Good Friday.

So far everything is going really well. Erin is almost 11 weeks along, the baby has a strong heart beat and is growing right on schedule. The only unfortunate part is that my poor wife has been dealing with some really horrible morning sickness. It's "morning" sickness that lasts all day long. She was able to get a B6 injection this past Friday which seemed to help take the edge off. I have to admit that I feel pretty bad about all of the physical and emotional hardship that she has to endure. As a guy I really do have it pretty easy.

Anyway...it's time for bed and I really do need to end this. I just want to say thank you to everyone that has helped Erin and I get to this point. We really wouldn't have been able to do it without the support of our friends and family.

Last, but not least, I have to say thank you to my beautiful wife for going through all of the hard stuff to carry our child. I love you, sweetheart!

Peace, love and lasagna...

- Jeremy

Life is a funny thing. Just when I think I've got a handle on how things are ordered in this world I find out that I was waaaaay off.

It is true what they say..."the older you get, the faster time flies." Considering recent events, I think my speed along my personal timeline has just about tripled. The reason for this is fairly simple. As you get older you begin to realize how truly insignificant a single day is. In the grand scheme of your life how long is a single day? It's extremely short and given my changing perception of time it appears to grow shorter as each year passes.

I've been doing a bit a contemplation over the last few days. Thinking about the teachers I encountered along my journey through the public school system and how most of them have retired and a few of them have passed on. There are days when I can still vividly remember my days as a child on the playground in elementary school as if it were not so long ago, but then I swing violently back to the present realizing that it was 20 years past.

I think that's why turning 30 tends to freak people out so much. You begin to realize that you are truly not a kid anymore. That your responsibilities outweigh your whims. If fortunate enough, you realize that there a few friends that you've known for 25+ years. You are half way to the age of 60 and you haven't even scrathed the surface of what you promised yourself you'd do before you got too old and frail to do it. It's not an easy concept to get your head around and still be comfortable with.

Oddly enough, lately I've had an overwhelming sense of calm. I'm not going to go into detail, but sufice it to say, I've got shit I need to be worried about and I can't say that I am. I know what my responsibilities are and I know that I won't achieve them all or in the time frame that I want. Strange thing is that it does not matter. That's not to say that I don't care or am somehow going to be irresponsible. No...I'm just not going to fret too much about things that I cannot change. I'm going to be honest and responsible, fix what needs to be fixed and do it as fast as I can without killing myself mentally in the process.

Hmmm... Turning 30 and having a baby on the way really does something to you...

- Jeremy