Oh my fcuking god!

secretsquirrell
secretsquirrell Posts: 10
edited April 2010 in The bottom bracket
I got some incredible news last night





My much better half is pregnant! Unplanned so a bit of a shock but now that I've had a day to reflect I'm ecstatic! Scared poopless, but oh my god, I can't wait!

Definitely need a better paid job now!
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  • Flasheart
    Flasheart Posts: 1,278
    w00t big congrats tufty :wink:
    The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle. ...Stapp’s Ironical Paradox Law
    FCN3
    http://img87.yfrog.com/img87/336/mycubeb.jpg
    http://lonelymiddlesomethingguy.blogspot.com/
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Congrats mate, life gets harder but much much better now. :D:D
  • secretsquirrell
    secretsquirrell Posts: 10
    I've wanted to settle down and have kids for a while, and in my mid 30's seems like a perfect time. Think I should post in the buying advice section on where to buy nursery stuff?
  • Bobbinogs
    Bobbinogs Posts: 4,841
    Fantastic news. Congratulations secretsquirrell.

    Now, if I might recommend my LBS as it seems to be the perfect combination:

    http://www.williams-cycles.co.uk/
  • Ands
    Ands Posts: 1,437
    secretsquirrell wrote:
    Think I should post in the buying advice section on where to buy nursery stuff?
    And then you need to go to the Classifieds section and sell all your bike stuff to pay for it. :D

    Congratulations by the way. :)
    Cannondale Six Carbon
  • Frank the tank
    Frank the tank Posts: 6,553
    Congratulations, hope everything goes well.
    Tail end Charlie

    The above post may contain traces of sarcasm or/and bullsh*t.
  • -spider-
    -spider- Posts: 2,548
    Congrats Mate - life gets brill from now on.
    -Spider-
  • Splottboy
    Splottboy Posts: 3,695
    Yeah, bet you can't wait for the moment when the Mrs is sky-high on funny gas, and swearing like a trooper. Really strong, barroom/barracks swearing. Embarassing...

    Then shouting at you..." Don't you EVER come near me again !!!
    ( Funny thing is she went through it again 3 yrs later. Women, eh?)

    Oh, and the moment they carry the after-birth past you to weight it?
    Yeah. magical. Totally magical...

    Good luck kid, you're gonna need it !
  • deptfordmarmoset
    deptfordmarmoset Posts: 3,118
    Congrats for burying your nuts in the right secret place, Squirrel :lol:

    I remember being scared out of my skin - a roller-coaster ride between pride and panic...

    And they then grow up: my daughter phoned me up a couple of months ago to announce that she was pregnant. I have a booking for grandaddyhood on EDC 19 September. Now that's going to be one to sit back and enjoy - once I get my head round it. She's only 8 miles away but with SE London's most pointless hill, Shooters Hill in the way, I'll be needing the bike. Granddaddies need exercise too!!
    Looking for a cycling buddy?
  • Bobbinogs
    Bobbinogs Posts: 4,841
    Oh, and the moment they carry the after-birth past you to weigh it?

    ...was the midwife a weight weeny or just checking to see how many pounds per minute it needed in the Aga (tasty treat, nutritious and all the rage you know :wink: )
  • Splottboy
    Splottboy Posts: 3,695
    Probably Nurse Lecter...Bottle of Chianti in the fridge no doubt !
  • hopper1
    hopper1 Posts: 4,389
    Congratulations, mate...
    I'm sure you'll be enjoying this moment, for the rest of your life :wink:
    Start with a budget, finish with a mortgage!
  • Flasheart
    Flasheart Posts: 1,278
    If I remember correctly..it's the conception bit that I used to enjoy :twisted:
    The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle. ...Stapp’s Ironical Paradox Law
    FCN3
    http://img87.yfrog.com/img87/336/mycubeb.jpg
    http://lonelymiddlesomethingguy.blogspot.com/
  • Westerberg
    Westerberg Posts: 652
    you have done the most significant think a chap can do. I too had this news 11 years ago. It's been a rollercoaster but the most amazing time. Congratulations, you are in for the most rewarding years of your life so far.
  • Flasheart
    Flasheart Posts: 1,278
    I was told last night by somebody that works with my 17 yr old son, that when he comes into work on the weekend, Matthew just makes everybody smile.
    Maybe he is my gift to the world
    The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle. ...Stapp’s Ironical Paradox Law
    FCN3
    http://img87.yfrog.com/img87/336/mycubeb.jpg
    http://lonelymiddlesomethingguy.blogspot.com/
  • shouldbeinbed
    shouldbeinbed Posts: 2,660
    Flasheart wrote:
    I was told last night by somebody that works with my 17 yr old son, that when he comes into work on the weekend, Matthew just makes everybody smile.
    Maybe he is my gift to the world

    1st off congratulations SecretSquirrell, its the best rollercoaster ride you'll ever be on.

    Flash, top man, I get a few complments about my brood too and I always walk a little taller after.
  • Barrie_G
    Barrie_G Posts: 479
    Congrats 8)

    Reminds me of a joke;

    Woman lying in the delivery room giving birth, screaming blue murder, about how much it hurts and why she ever let her husband near her, how he was going to have to make do with his right hand from now, how it was all his fault.

    He says, no dear if you remember rightly it's all your fault,

    How the bloody hell do you work that one out asks the wife,

    Well if you remember says the husband that night around nine months ago when you were feeling frisky but we didn't have any condoms I wanted to stick it up your ass..............


    but you said it would hurt too much.
  • nolf
    nolf Posts: 1,287
    Congrats +1.

    Can you name him after someone in the forum? :)
    "I hold it true, what'er befall;
    I feel it, when I sorrow most;
    'Tis better to have loved and lost;
    Than never to have loved at all."

    Alfred Tennyson
  • passout
    passout Posts: 4,425
    Congrats - It'll change your life man..........
    'Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible' Marcel Proust.
  • tlw1
    tlw1 Posts: 22,156
    great news

    Had my best cycling moment today, when I got my 5 year old cycling without stabilisers :lol:
  • nitesight
    nitesight Posts: 119
    Welcome to the club.

    It's weird how the hardest thing you will ever do can also be the most rewarding.

    Everyone has advice, the best advice is to ignore it all and find your own way. Also - enjoy the night when they are in hospital. You're so jacked you can't sleep, which is a shame as it;s the last time you will sleep for about 6 months!

    Congrats.
  • tlw1
    tlw1 Posts: 22,156
    my friend JD ensured I slept well the first night as I spent it drinking and saying "boy, oh boy, oh boy"! :lol:
  • antlaff
    antlaff Posts: 583
    Splottboy wrote:
    Yeah, bet you can't wait for the moment when the Mrs is sky-high on funny gas, and swearing like a trooper. Really strong, barroom/barracks swearing. Embarassing...

    Then shouting at you..." Don't you EVER come near me again !!!
    ( Funny thing is she went through it again 3 yrs later. Women, eh?)!

    haha - same here SWMBO is due our 8th in the summer and still refuses the free drugs!!! But it is funny as feck the shite they come out with on the gas & air!!

    Good luck with ur first - they are joy for the first few hours!!!
    Work
    Ride
    Play
    Sunny Days
    Fun
  • secretsquirrell
    secretsquirrell Posts: 10
    Still not gotten used to the fact that I'm going to be a dad. Do I really have to give up my childhood? I'm only mid 30's......

    OK, I am excited, but I'm also scared. Think the excitement is becoming the bigger of the 2 emotions now though. I just hope I can be half the dad my dad has been.
  • Aggieboy
    Aggieboy Posts: 3,996
    secretsquirrell - well done, kids are great.

    At least you'll always remember where you buried your nuts!!
    "There's a shortage of perfect breasts in this world, t'would be a pity to damage yours."
  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    Being a dad is your best chance to be a hero, I don't mean just in the eyes of your kids, I mean to make all the difference to someone, against all the odds if necessary.
    Congrats and go for it, it will hurt but it's worth it
  • crumbschief
    crumbschief Posts: 3,399
    bompington wrote:
    be a hero,make all the difference against all the odds if necessary.
    It will hurt but it's worth it

    As said by Mrs bompington one fine evening.
  • simon johnson
    simon johnson Posts: 1,064
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53G588QPB8w

    :D
    Where\'s me jumper?
  • Beatmaker
    Beatmaker Posts: 1,092
    Big congrats, I'm looking at my 20 month old daughter right now and she fills me with absolute pride and happiness every day. Just be prepared to be tired. So very, very tired. :wink:
  • emjayjay
    emjayjay Posts: 39
    Congrat Squirrel!

    My first is due in 45 days!!! (The day the World Cup starts)! Great timinmg - two weeks paternity leave for the football!

    emjayjay

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