On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me…

Epiphany! Today is the twelfth day of Christmas or Epiphany. Our common thought of the word epiphany is something to the effect of `sudden realization’. Well, I had a ‘sudden realization’ today. Today, I found out that I was going to be a dad. Yep, that’s right, Rebecca and I took a pregnancy test and it was positive. Thanks be to God. I don’t think that I can properly express the emotions that I felt at that moment. Yes, I cried. Go ahead and laugh at me my friends, but I did. I cried, Rebecca cried, heck, I think our dog Hardy cried, however, that could have been because it was 8:00 in the morning and he had to pee.

Well, for the last 2 months, Rebecca and I have been “trying” to conceive. We have been truly blessed for it to happen this quickly. When we decided to start trying, we both thought that the only thing bad about that was that it wouldn’t be as big of a surprise as if it “just happened.” We have been trying, so we knew that there was a chance of a positive outcome when we took the test. However, here is the big surprise---it was a GIANT surprise. Rebecca went in to take the test, and within seconds, she came out shaking, saying something about “…a line, the line is already there….” That’s when we both cried. I feel as though I have been truly blessed….like I said, I can’t describe the feelings.

Over the next 9 months or so, I am going to periodically write and express my thoughts and describe this pregnancy from a man’s, a husband’s, and an expecting father’s viewpoint. This should be one wild ride. Boy, I am ready for it. A lot of the blog will be serious, a lot will be funny, a lot will be me randomly writing nonsense after doing all of the cleaning and getting Rebecca tofu and chocolate (oh yeah, she’s a vegetarian). So, sit back, try not to laugh at me too much for the mistakes that I make and join me for one heck of an adventure. I’m ready, Hardy’s ready (that is just because he believes there is peanut butter in it for him), let’s go…..

Major Players:

Jeff: The husband, the expectant father, the keeper of the remote

Rebecca: The wife, the expectant mother, the keeper of Jeff

Hardy: The dog, the companion, the keeper of the squeaky toys.

the Truffle: The baby