Home for the Holidays (Week 23)

So just like everyone else in Amurica (I said it just like that) we celebrated stuffing your face then feeling guilty and trying to figure out when you can work out next holiday of Thanksgiving!  Or the stuffing your face, watching football and laughing at all those people that want to work out holiday. Either one is fine.
Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays and usually I go down to see my family and then we switch with my wife's family.  This was an important holiday season because this will be the last time I will celebrate these holidays with just my wife (as you haven't figured out I'm having a kid).  As much as I love the holidays I learned a couple things while thinking about Thanksgiving and Christmas.

1.  I would lose or break my kid during the holidays

Now my wife and I have been blessed with ADD, we forget many things.  This isn't indicating that we WILL lose our kid, but whenever I think of the holidays, there is always a sense of pandimonium that is worrying.  I understand that there are somethings I won't be able to do.  I can't sit in front of a TV watching football all day and not because my wife hates it, but I need to show my kid attention.  The problem is that my attention is all over the place.  Thankfully we have other relatives to keep track of this baby so there are several eyes on her.

2.  Sleeping after food comas will be a thing of the past.

Thanksgiving is a great time to stuff your face!  The other awesome thing is to take a nice food coma nap or sleep.  Sleeping in is one of God's wonderful gifts to human kind, which usually disappears when you have a kid.  I just realized since my wife is getting farther along and our baby girl loves to kick and be SUPER active between 9pm-3am that I probably won't be able to have my post food coma or sleep in for that matter.  I've decided one of my best bets ia that when she naps, I nap or do like a WWF wrestling match and tag in.                                                                                                                              

3.  My wife and I have both lost our luster.

Okay so this may sound selfish, but I realized that my wife and I have lost our luster when it come to holiday gifts.  All I heard this past week was: I can't wait to buy this for the baby, I have the perfect gift for your baby, what do you think the baby will want, baby....baby......baby!  Have I mentioned that our baby isn't even born yet???!!   I get it, babies are cute, adorable and I will love my baby girl like no tomorrow, but really??  I guess I will have to deal with this for the next 10-15 years.   

Seriously fellas when you are having a kid one of the best things is to come to an understanding that life will not be the same.  But this isn't anything new: leaving high school, going to college, getting married: all of those moments provided the same opportunity for growth.  This is no different.....except it comes with a poopy diaper. 

Well 3.5 months to go....

The End~