shout out to p!

so... as parenthood is fast approaching, with just three more months to go - i have to share a little bit about how my husband is approaching his role as a husband and a father. i have to say, it's pretty incredible. i bet some of you wouldn't even recognize him!

laundry - check! dishes - check! bed made every day - check! he even made the comment to me the other day that there wasn't enough laundry for him to do a load of laundry that day. he cleaned out the refrigerator, went out and bought some WD-40 for our "darth vadar" garbage can, and organized the kitchen.

now i know what you must be thinking... this doesn't exactly sound like the same p that you remember, but i have to say that he really is taking on this new chapter of life with a tremendous amount of GUSTO!

oh, and in addition to "chores" he's also taken on a few little projects around the home. i was more than impressed by this one... he had a little help from a very handy friend - but check out the rail in the garage for our stairs! VERY STURDY. this was to prevent the clumsy pregnant lady from stumbling out the door, and off the ledge onto the garage floor.


ok - i have to share this too. so, my parents gave us a clock that chimes and plays music on the hour for christmas. you know, one of those clocks that every house needs. so one weekend morning i pulled it out, put it all together, we talked about where we thought of hanging it and i left it at the bottom of our stairs because i wasn't quite ready to get to hanging it. that same week, i came home from work and my husband had hung the clock. he did the manual "stud test" and determined that the stud was actually a bit off center on the wall we wanted to hang the clock. but he went ahead and hung the clock, showed it to me when i got home, and checked for the reaction on my face (dramatic pause). well, for those of you who know me... lack of symmetry is a serious issue. i'm linear, orderly... etc, etc. i did the eyebrow thing a little (just couldn't help it) and really, really tried to rationalize it. he said "why don't we just leave it up for a while, and see how you feel with it?". by this time in my day... im usually getting pretty HUNGRY again, so i agreed and it was over to the kitchen to start dinner.

the next day - off to work, same routine, come home, walk through the front door, check out the wall with the clock... and this is what i see...

so... first impressions of "the clock wall"?

ok, here was mine... more eyebrows... but then i couldn't help but bust out laughing - hysterically no less. oh and i love my husband and his quirkiness and his perspective and his way of doing things. at least, i am learning to really embrace all of these things :)! and after about 5 minutes of laughing, i pause and wait for him to respond. and this is the part that i can't help but love, because... perspective is such an individual thing some times. he has a unique way of finding symmetry in ways, that just wouldn't be intuitive to me. do you see the symmetry? i'll leave you with this... check out the light switches and the heating control. then go back up and check out the clock and the picture frame.

get it?

i love you p... so much more, every single day.