Column, check.

Since 4th grade it's been a goal of mine to be a columnist. I'm excited to share with you that come Tuesday afternoon, the News-Register launches "Baby on Board" by yours truly. The experience of meeting this deadline brought back this weird thing I do whenever I have a new writing assignment. I get all panicky that maybe I'm all out of good ideas. Forever. And I get nervous that I'm going to be exposed as a sucky writer. Then I come to my senses and get to work. Luckily, my parents helped me with Sammy so I could get through the crazy phase and write my first draft.

Now I'm at the part where I hold my breath and hope people like it. This column thing is a little different than reporting since it's more personal. Plus, I'm writing about the controversial subject of raising children.

Speaking of which, Sam deserves a little credit for sleeping through the night-ish last night. He didn't sleep in our bed and frankly, I prefer that. I am all for the "family bed" deal if it works for you. It does not, however, work for me.   

What a week! Matt's been working a second job in his spare time trying to meet a Memorial Day deadline leaving me and Baby Chi Chi with a lot of one-on-one time. The little darlin' is full of surprises. Every time I turn around he seems to have a new thing. This week his "things" were: pulling himself to a standing position, turning diaper changes into a mother-son wrestling match, blowing raspberries and puking on me mere moments before walking out the door.

We went to our first book signing on Thursday to meet Diana Abu-Jaber. It was awesome! She was beautiful, gracious and just cool to meet. Sam was a little rockstar! I am amazed how good he is in "indoor voice" kinds of places like the bookstore and library. With the exception of the movie fiasco when Amy and I tried to take the babies to "Juno," Sam's been amazing in those environments. There was a (brief) period I wanted to name him "Dewey" as in the Dewey Decimal system. I'll put passing on that on the list of things he can thank me for later.