Excitement abound

I don't really plan to post much on here, because I'm pretty horrible at communicating my thoughts at any given time -- and believe me, I think on in so many directions you'd have a really hard time following them anyway -- and I'm really not a blogger. Hell, I only really log into Facebook to play that D&D app and even that's waning from my attention. Myspace is something I avoid like a plague.

But my beautiful wife means the world to me and this is something she put together for some posterity as we build a family and have a future, so I'm going to do my best to put this to use (when I think about it).

I'm effing excited about having our first home. I did NOT want our child to be born into a crappy apartment where I have to threaten the lives of our upstairs neighbors on a daily basis. I'm tired of going outside and cataloging new dents and dings in our cars because of people who can't park worth a damn. I just don't want to share walls and parking any more. I'm done with it. And I want to know that the 1k I'm spending every month is going somewhere that's actually good for us long term.

It's been probably 10 years since I've mowed a lawn. I hope I can remember how. I finally get to do my own maintenance on my house. I can change something if I want to. It's gonna be awesome.

I'm looking forward to helping Andrea design a gorgeous nursery for Madness and I can already see her in my head growing up with a yard to play in and chasing the dog in the backyard with a weapon of improvised design. It's going to be fantastic. I look forward to the day we get to teach her how to use a slip & slide, because we can do that in our own yard.

I look forward to planting lemon trees in the back yard for Andrea and watching them grow with Madison so she can one day steal all the lemons from her mom's tree and hide them somewhere because they're made of gold. Yeah, I'm giving my daughter ideas already, I'm going to be horrible.