Great Friday

Today is "Good Friday".  Yes, it is indeed good. But isn't every Friday pretty good? I call today "Great" Friday. Jesus went to the cross for you and me! Wow. Would you give up your son (or daughter) for the sins of others? I know I wouldn't. Just being honest.

Tonight. I took the wife out to eat. We just went to a casual neighborhood pub here in West Nashville, nothing fancy. A big family came in. 20-something husband & wife, 4 year old girl, 2 sets of grandparents and a brand new baby girl. My wife and I just looked at that little girl for a few minutes and I got teary eyed. I turned to look at my wife and she had the waterworks down her cheeks! It's real. She is coming and in 10 weeks, she'll be here.

We came home, watched a few episodes of "Lost" (yeah, we have never seen it and don't know how it ends) and I put her to bed. I am now watching my Nashville Predators fight for their playoff lives.

It sure has been a Great Friday in many ways. I am a blessed man.

Tetris

You love Tetris, I love Tetris, your kids and parents probably love Tetris too. Too bad I was not playing on the old Gameboy or computer, but have been playing furniture Tetris for the past several days. We've got a small room for the nursery. It has been an office/man cave but with a girly day bed in it too. Now that it's becoming the nursery, we've moved more furniture around than 2 Men and a Truck. The hangup has been the daybed. The bride says it may come in handy when she is feeding late at night and just wants to sleep in that room with the baby. We both agree that it does not allow for the nursery to look good, have any space and be focused on the little girl. After hours of moving the furniture around to see how it would look in every which way, she agreed that the day bed had to go! So, I tore it down, put it in the garage and have my little girl-to-be's room looking A+ cute I must say.

Doin' It All For My Baby

I know Huey Lewis wasn't singing to his unborn kid when he wrote that but that was my theme song yesterday and today. My bride (and my girl too I guess) are out of town this weekend so it was time for me to get to work. So I:
- Built the crib (not as bad as I was told, or maybe I did it wrong)
- Completely got everything out of the office so it is now officially her room
- Painted the primer coat on the changing table (old table given to us by my mother-in-law)
- Cleaned out the garage and threw a boatload of stuff away
- Painted the changing table
- Rearranged the furniture in our room so that the computer desk fits
- Painted the changing table
- Put new strings on my guitar. Yes, this is for her too. I plan to play a lot of lullabies to her
- Painted the changing table
- Cursed the changing table.

Now, I watch basketball un-interupted probably for the last time. :)