You have heard of the Princess and the pea

Guys if and when you get share the adventure of pregnancy with your wife/girlfriend/partner/common-law (sorry if I have forgotten anyone), here is a simple word of advice to keep her happy with a good nights sleep "Pillows". I am not talking about pillows for just her head. 

In our bed it was like the pillows started to replicate and have offspring of their own. Soon our already pillow top mattress covered with a duvet top was topped off with pillows upon pillows. Everyone in the house was demoted to a one pillow maximum for the cause. Just so that Lindsay would have a good nights sleep. 

She had pillows behind her back, under her baby belly. Once she constructed a square frame of pillows with a hole in the middle, so that she could place the baby belly in the hole to give herself the illusion of sleeping on her stomach, That night I am pretty sure I was demoted to zero pillows. 

For 6 of the 9 months I was a big spoon to a wall of pillows down the middle of the bed.

Now this is just a small sacrifice you have to make, as she is the one creating life! 

So no complaints were had by me and I am in no way complaining with this post. More so trying to forewarn future spouses/common law/Dads out there to arm themselves with this little jewel because a good nights sleep for her means a good nights sleep for you too.

Okay time to get a little geeky

It's time you learnt a little about the techy geek, comic book lovin, suspender wearing persona.

I am currently a University Student at the U of M in Computer Science.

I was late in starting my post-secondary education, at the ripe old age of 27, which in a campus full of 18-20 something kids, you feel like the old man in the room. I ain't going to lie, it was and still is tough to challenge my brain, but education comes with some great rewards and the journey so far has been great.

I could not do this without the support from my Wife, Daughter, and words of encouragement from my parents, in-laws, Unlce's and Aunties, and friends.

For those of you that know me I have a slight obsession for anything spider-man. My dream for my children is to pass down my vast knowledge of the comic super hero realm so that one day they will appreciate it like I do.

To keep as connected as I can with tech stuff, I usually read Googles Sci/Tech Section.

I just started to follow the blog GeekDad and have been really enjoying it.

For most of my software needs I trust cnet's download.com. I like the fact that you can change the license option and browse only freeware or opensource stuff. Plus the site offers reviews on products with yays or nays.

So that is a little insight into my inner geek.

If you have any techy questions, suggestions, or need computer (hardware or software) guidance leave me a comment below. I am not an expert of anything, but I like to help with the knowledge I do know.

Look forward to hearing from you.

Social awkward couple seeks friends

A tough thing about being a parent is trying to find and keep friends.

In this day in age of On-line dating I wish there was a place to search out friends. Couple friends with kids, who enjoy going to the zoo, camping, or just coming over for game night. Now I am sure some sites are available but my fear is posting an add saying "couple seeks couple". Afraid that might send the wrong message.
It is tough, to put yourself out there, and hope that you are impressive enough as a couple to make new friends.
Me personally I feel anxiety about having friends over, try to hard to impress to the point I am really not myself or become so stressed with fear of saying the wrong thing, that I just do not say anything at all.
My wife Lindsay, can carry a conversation very well. She is definitely a better person in groups than I.
The day I met Lindsay we were both 16, she just moved to Winnipeg from Thompson, been here only a week and was invited to the same house party I was at. I still remember how relaxed she seemed and how she managed to introduce herself to everyone at that party. She also managed to grab my attention, I was so excited to meet her and was so nervous to talk to her. I am a socially awkward person now, but if you knew me back then, you would consider the now me an extravert. I ended up walking her home at the end of the night, but got so nervous about what to say, ended screwing things up so bad.Only walked her half way home, saying that I was cold! Took her 10 years to forgive me on that one.

Still I feel as a couple though we have some great things to offer.

So here is our couple friend seeking profile if we were to submit to a on-line service

Married Couple 29 seeks fun adventurous couple to grow old together!

About Us

We are soon to be 30 something, who have two children, a 10 year old daughter and a 31/2 month old son. Husband is currently a student in Computer Science. Wife is a Professional Civil Engineer. Our likes are: camping, fishing, home renovation, dinner out, board games.
We are laid back go with the flow (well he is) kind of people. Well educated nerds/geeks who can offers advice on techy things and building things.

Looking for good friends to share social life with.

Anymore questions just ask in the comments below.

Pee on the stick

Having kids is something I have always wanted.

Here is the story about when I found out me and my wife were going to have a baby.

Not being a female, it was explained to me, sometimes you just know! Something about being in-tune with your body and listening to the signs.

In my opinion it’s the fatigue, porcelain hugging and mood swings that are for sure signs. But the previous example sounds more pleasant.

We had made the decision to start trying, with the attitude of if it happens it happens.
Then last summer Lindsay my wife and our daughter Hailey decided to take a trip out to Calgary to visit her Dad. After the second night being there, I received a phone call from her. She seemed excited and a little suspicious as we were talking. She went on to tell me about what they did that day, we talked about the weather there, then very casually says "man I woke up this morning not feeling well. Kind of like sick in the morning".

After a little bit of silence on my part I finally clued in to what she meant.

To keep me a part of the whole experience, she was going to wait until she was home to take the test to confirm.

While Lindsay was still in Calgary I made a trip to the grocery store to pick up my weeks groceries and decided to buy the test for her. So here I am standing in the aisle. Top two shelves have every known type of "pregnancy preventing" aid you could think of. Bottom two shelves is every known pregnancy confirming product you could think of. To make matters worse pregnancy test slogans, names and advertising had one thing in common "clear results". They all claimed,"Take the guess work out", “Our product guarantees you will know if you are pregnant”. With so many to choose from I did what I always do when confronted by this situation in grocery store! I buy the sale item. Grabbed the box, ripped the coupon off the shelf and proceeded to the check out.

After a couple of days Lindsay was back home.

So here we are me and Lindsay standing in the bathroom. Staring at this white stick waiting to see what our results were going to be!!!! Tick-tock, tick-tock! Two lines was a yes, one line was a no. Slowly one line shows clearly, solid and confirmed, bah we are not pregnant!

Confused and disappointed, we look at each other and say "doesn't that SUCK!”

Our conversation went on to Lindsay saying she is really sure that she is. Heartburn has even kicked in, fatigue and sickness again were the for sure "markers" and she swears it is not in her head.

Another ten minutes pass as we converse with our confusion and I happened to glance down at the stick again. The light hit it in just the right way and I could see a water color painted shadow of a second line beside the first.

Wait a minute I say, this is a light of hope! Out come the instructions from inside the box. As mentioned earlier all these test say clear results. What they do not say is check instructions for varied results. Apparently a solid and shadow line is a maybe?!?! Maybe, how could their be a maybe?

So the next morning Lindsay took another test and with the same one solid and one faint line gave us more of a comfort that she was right.

Excited we made the announcement to Hailey, our parents, and our siblings.

Stay tuned for the next instalment…..

9 months, 38 weeks, 266 days, 6384 hours.

Over the course of the next little while I am going to attempt to share the 9 months leading up to the birth of my son.

From the day we found out till the day he came out.

I hope to keep you entertained with my perspective of what me and my wife went through.

Stay tunned......