The Klog -- Kitchen Blog

This should be interesting. We've entered into the world of blogging with the Klog -- or the Kitchen Blog.

This is our first blogging experience, so we're not really sure what will work best...or at all. Hopefully we will both join in on this experience -- it might be interesting to see the different perspectives as we go through the next year or so.

This first one has a lot of catching up to do, and will be a little long. I'm a little long winded when I write anyway, but hopefully they will be shorter down the road.

We have some exciting news that we hope to share with family and friends in the near future, and hope this will be a great way to keep everyone updated on how things are, and for us to keep track of what we're doing. God knows I can't remember anything.

Janelle is scheduled for a doctor's appointment tomorrow. I don't want to give anything away just in case someone stumbles across this, but we're both pretty excited and anxious. We're trying to figure out how to tell our parents -- something fun that will catch them off guard. Janelle's birthday is the week after (2/28), so we think we have a good plan. We're telling the fam that we're coming into Ashland and want to get everyone together for her birthday. I sold the ideas as the only thing Janelle would agree to on her 30th birthday.

Our plan is to get both sets of parents together -- along with Jody and Granny -- over dinner and spring it on them. How? Well, we're not quite sure yet. Maybe Janelle giving them gifts, something like, "You guys have given me everything I've needed for 30 years; I want to give you guys a present this year for my birthday." The grandparents-to-be would open their gift -- a "baby loves grandparents" photo frame, a bib or some other baby related object that would spring it on them. Another idea is to take a family photo, and just before the photo takes shout "Janelle's having a baby" -- should be a good photo. We thought about doing one of those personal calendars you can make at Wal-Mart complete with 12 months of pictures of us, and then circle the due date. Or greeting cards for the grandparents with a list of items they'll want to have at their house when baby comes to visit. Danielle Russell just announced that she's pregnant during her birthday dinner last week with her parents. She and her husband worked a present into the gifts people bought for her, and she opened a book of baby names as the way to share with everyone. (I thought it was funny yesterday when Ryan was telling me all about it, not realizing that we were trying to come up with just that idea.)There are tons of great ideas -- we just need to pick one.

We went out to eat with Bobby and Mary Feldman last night, and afterward the Feldman's went home and we went to the book store. I bought a book -- "So You're Going to Be a Dad." With all the books Janelle is reading, it's probably a good idea for me to read some, too. I'm not a reader, but this one is actually somewhat entertaining and informative, and best of all it's not really thick like many of these books.

As I mentioned, Janelle has a doctor's appointment tomorrow. She has already gone once because she was having some pains (everything was fine), but this will be our first trip together. We should find out a due date and tons of other things that will completely overwhelm us...or at least me. As long as all goes well, our parents will find out on the 23rd. Wish us luck!

I won't go into all the "how Janelle's feeling" stuff -- I'll leave that to her.

I guess that's it for the first blog. Welcome to our new online journal; we hope you'll check back often. (Of course, no one will know about this for a couple of weeks because we haven't told anyone yet. But I know some of you, and know you'll start at the bottom and read all the posts.)

Cheers (well, except for Janelle),
David