Well it's hard to believe that in just 8 weeks or so Jan and I will be parents for the first time.  I'm pretty sure most of you know by now that we are expecting a little girl in July.  If you didn't know, well, surprise!  We are very grateful that Jan has experienced a fairly smooth pregnancy thus far.  That may be a lot easier for me to say than for Jan, but my observation has been that she has handled it extremely well.  Of course I will never know what she is truly experiencing nor do I want to.  But I am forever grateful to her. 

While our honey-do list seems to grow pretty constantly, we have teamed up make a reasonable dent in our list.  I have to catch myself at times because I will think that I need to do something before the baby gets here or else it will never get done.  For example, I feel that if I don't by a lawnmower now, then I will have to put all to purchase for another two or 3 years.  This is mostly a misconception on my part, and something that I need to make sure that I am balancing correctly.

So, we have been able to rearrange the upstairs bedrooms, which has been an interesting process.  We have consolidated our office and guest room into one room, while leaving the other room available as our nursery.  In the process of doing this, we continued to stumble across several items that we needed to either throw up way or donate or shred.  It's really a good feeling when we get rid of so much junk.  And it's amazing to us both how much junk we can accumulate in such a short time.  Granted, most of it is small stuff, but add all of it together and you get quite a load.  We have also stumbled across some sentimental items as well, which is always fun and, err sentimental.

We have yet to decide if Jan will go back to work, but if she does it will most likely be in a part-time role.  We are thankful that we will be able to make a decision after the baby arrives, once we have a chance to see how things go and after diving in.

(Note:  I "typed" this entry using some dictation software that I have been evaluating at work.  Hopefully I did not miss any words that I needed to correct.  Since it is not a perfect science, it can be pretty funny and at times scary what the software dictates.)