Well,

It’s been a wild ride in 2011. It started out innocently enough with a leisurely group trip to Puerto Vallarta to celebrate my buddy Dave’s 40th birthday. That trip deserved a post all it’s own but I have been too damn busy to think about it. When we returned, life continued in the fast lane like 2010 never happened, and before I knew it, it was summer. There was a revolution in Egypt and Mubarak left office. Qadaffi is in hiding and essentially removed from power in Libya. They finally found and killed Bin Laden to relatively little fanfare. Floods and Tornados leveled much of the Southern U.S. and an enormous Tsunami hit Japan after a 9.0 magnitude earthquake that left 15,000 dead, nuclear reactors melting down, and doubled the size of the Pacific trash patch overnight. In just the last two weeks the US nearly defaulted on it’s debts and the European banking system is on the verge of collapse. The stock market dropped 15% and folks are stockpiling gold and ammo in San Francisco of all places.

It sounds like the end of the world right? It might be, who knows? But amidst all the chaos this year, something amazing has happened. On May 29th my wife emerged from the bathroom with a little plastic stick in her hands and she said “Baby, wake up” I have something to show you. “Two lines”….. There were definitely 2 lines.

Zetta's first ultasound

I have always wanted to have kids. Ever since I was 18 or so I knew I wanted to be a father. But it took me years of self searching and getting my own head on straight enough that I thought it made sense. Then it took a few more years to find the right woman and actually make a go of it.

Now with a giant mortgage, the economy in turmoil and the world getting crazier all around us, I can’t help but smile with the knowledge that in 6 short months we will be parents.

The Mayan calendar says that the end of the world as we know it is on 12-21-2012. Some call this a re-awakening and not a catastrophic end of days. Maybe it’s the singularity.

But I know the truth. The actual end of the world as we know it, at least for my wife and I, is predicted to be on 02-02-2012. And I know for certain that it is not really the end at all. But a beautiful new beginning.

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