How Marriage is Like Remodeling a Bathroom

The Idea: You've finally decided to take the plunge. It's an idea that's been rolling around in your head for awhile now, but it is time for you to commit. Your excitement of what can be overrides your fear of not having a clue of what you are doing.

Demolition: Your excitement continues to grow as you begin to deconstruct the "old" so that you can start over.

Preparation: You accumulate a bunch of stuff that you feel is "required" for your journey. Half of it, you don't really need.

Reality: You are now knee-deep into your commitment. You pause for a second and look around and all you see is utter chaos and destruction. How could you have been so stupid to get yourself into this mess? What were you thinking? You are a sad, lonely human being. Your options: break down and cry, call in a professional to fix your mess, or keep pressing on.

Reconcile: You decide to press on. You must now go out and get more stuff in order to patch up the mistakes that you've made.

Hope: You change your tactics. You realize that the "old way" isn't going to help you through this. You make notes that will help you to refocus yourself (see the "during" picture). You still don't know what you are doing, but things are starting to look better. You begin thinking about random philosophical allegories that would look good on a blog.

Clean Up: The hard work is done (for now). But the remnants of your past trials lay in piles all around you. You must pick up the pieces and move on.

Amazement: You're done! You realize now that the happiness that you had hoped for from the beginning can only come through a lot of hard work. A complex hormone is released in your brain that makes you forget about the "Reality" stage.

Davis Laughing Video hits 50,000 views on YouTube

In case you missed it, when Davis was 5 months old, we posted a video on YouTube of him laughing. It was one of those "glad we had the camera" moments. Over the last year, the video has really gained in popularity, and as of today it has now been viewed over 50,000 times! Since other people seem to like it, we're presenting it once more...hope it makes you smile once again.

Where were YOU on Aug 21, 2008?

What do we learn from Mommy and Daddy?

Like most people, I think that it is important that kids have both a mother and father who are involved in their lives. This is because kids tend to learn practical stuff from Mommy, and cool stuff from Daddy.

Cheesy transitions courtesy of Windows Movie Maker.

FDA finally gets it right

While Ellen blogs about "life", and "home", and "Davis", I've been struggling to put together some content for our blog.
It's no secret that I love chicken pot pie.
Apparently, everyone at the FDA loves it, too.



Hungry FDA Official Orders Massive Pot Pie Recall