As Read by Samuel L Jackson

Go the F**k to Sleep read by Samuel L. Jackson

The reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sOA_U3-HOs 

Snow

Sunday afternoon at Clear Creek. 

Update

I’ll start off with the two questions that everyone wants to know; the babies are growing, six months and they are over a pound in momma’s belly and Amber is doing great, a little tired but what do you expect, she is carrying two boys. A few mornings ago they woke Amber up with a battle royale in the belly trading kicks which means either soccer players or kung fu fighters. Our baby monitor came in the mail this weekend as a gif and of course these days they aren’t just the walkie-talkie type but have a camera, so of course we played with it. The four inch monitor shows you the temp of the room, has night vision, plays lullaby’s, and even has a motion/sound detector that activates the screen so you can watch your baby. Never thought I’d be that excited about a baby monitor. We also played with the car seats that we got last week and set up a crib. I can imagine what I looked like trying to get the car seat to detach from the base something like a caveman trying to work a computer. After a few walks around the house we realized how big our arms will get hauling these two little nuggets around. I’ll have plenty of chances to get some curls in that is for sure. Amber has a few books she flips through and fills me in on what to expect but her boss bought us the best book in the world titled, “Go the F**k to Sleep.” By far one of the funniest books I have ever read. Even better is I looked it up to find the author and found that they offer it on CD as an audio book read by none other than Samuel L. Jackson (http://www.amazon.com/Go-F-Sleep-Adam-Mansbach/dp/145584165X). I literally just laughed for ten minutes just listening to the small excerpt from the reading. I highly recommend it. Cribs, car seats, outfits, monitors and diapers are among some of the baby goodies that we have acquired up to this point but still have plenty to get, along with getting the nursery done.  I’ll keep you posted these last few months and provide a few pics of the bump the finished nursery, and whatever else I come across. Until then go the fuck to sleep. 

I'm going to be Daddy

I’M GOING TO BE A DAD! OF TWIN BOYS!

Amber is creeping up to 20 weeks pregnant now and it has taken me this long to let the world know. I have been wanting to post something about becoming a dad but didn’t know what to write about, but then it hit me, just say it like you were screaming from a mountain top. As an expecting dad people ask me if I’m nervous, scared, or stressed and honestly I’m just flat out excited. I’m mean sure I’ve never changed a diaper or fed a baby but ill figure it out, right? I’ll be fine. Who needs sleep? So with 20 weeks left, a little less because of twins, we have started to buckle down on the nursery décor, cribs, strollers, and all the baby stuff we need… times two. Diapers are starting to pile up in the corner of the room that will be the babies’ room. Soon our house will look like a baby store, and after they are born it will look like a baby disaster. With two boys on the way, if they end up anything like me, they will be entertainment and workout machines all in two little packages. We will be able to get rid of the TV and treadmill. We will be chasing them all over the house. So, becoming a dad is going to change a lot of things in our life but I am excited and ready to take them on, both of them. 


"It's no use to preach to your children, if you can't act decently yourself."
                                                                            -Teddy Roosevelt

New Scotch

Wife bought me some Scotch just because.

Me Fly Fishing last fall on the Mad River

My version of a selfie. 

Damn Nature You Scary (Christmas edition)

Time for another installment of “Damn Nature you Scary,” Christmas edition;

The praying mantis, a miniature alien looking, green monster that decapitates her mates immediately after mating. Literally the female bites the head right off. The male, who is behind for the dirty, finishes the job and she quickly grabs him, whips him around face-to-face and starts chomping. Now that in itself is worthy of the title “Damn Nature You Scary” and a bit selfish on the female part but that isn’t the reason for this post. Because of the holidays many people, with cheer in their eyes, have trotted down to the corner or out to the fields with their happy little families to pick out a Christmas tree. They look around for hours to pick out the right one, load on to the car with some string take it home and decorate it. Now imagine you are admiring this holiday beauty one morning with a cup of piping hot coffee in your hand when you notice it, a small white Styrofoam looking ball. You lean in to take a closer look and just as you are reaching in to move a limb out of the way for a better look, it burst open and 1500 tiny, almost translucent, creatures come pouring out and start flying around the house. As you are screaming, back stepping, and dropping that hot coffee all over you, you are fighting the little beasts for your life. After you realize you aren’t going to be devoured by the creatures and calm down you finally get a look at one of these little aliens and see that it’s actually a tiny praying mantis. The white foamy ball was actually a mantis pod, or egg, from the female. Apparently this year was an exceptionally good year for the mantis mating season, so much so that there is warning out now that if you have a real Christmas tree you should check it out and carefully remove the pod, especially if your tree comes from Michigan.

 

So if you are still shopping for that perfect Xmas gift, and the person you are searching for is a Beatles fan or even a classic rock fan or just a fan of music then the gift to get is the album “The Art of McCartney.” A collection of Paul McCartney songs redone by a list of artist such as Billy Joel, Alice Cooper, Def Leppard, and even Willie Nelson pays tribute. Most of the songs are well done but just like every album there is a few that could have been done by another artist.