Well, today was my first official day as the Stay-at-Home partner. It was a little bit of a challenge getting out of bed since I "didn't really have anything to do today". then I reminded myself, forcefully, that my new job was working to help keep the stress off my partner and to keep things up around here as a part of that. So I roll out with the wife and see her off to work with a hug and kiss. We've been driving in to work together for almost three years now and that isn't going to be an option anymore. It was a bit harder saying goodbye this morning than either of us really thought it would be.
The dogs are confused having me home all day, and were under foot the entire time. I will admit to working into my new role slowly, and the only real work that got done was some cleaning in the Master Bath. Having a dentist appointment in the middle of the day didn't help of course. I made a decision in the middle of things too. There is going to be a level of "good enough" that I can live with. Shooting for perfect is just going to lead to failure. I stood up from scrubbing, got things cleaned up, and noticed a couple of places where I apparently missed with the brush. Know what? They will be there in a couple weeks when I hit the shower again. Besides, Chris was thrilled with my efforts.
I did manage my one major goal for the day and there was a hot home-cooked meal almost ready for here when she got home. GO ME!
I don't know how many updates there are going to be here in the beginning. It'll probably be mostly random thoughts and observations until Thumper arrives in November. For those of you who don't know "Thumper" is the place holder, or in-utero, name for the wee womb squatter. We were told early on that, since we are waiting to find out the gender, we weren't allowed to refer to the baby as "it" and every time we said "them" or "they" people asked us if were having twins.
