a ben’s life

Well, here it is in all it’s glory. My first podcast for A Ben’s Life! It’s more a dry run than a polished specimen, but none the less, please listen!
• A Ben’s Life Podcast 1

I give a brief history of the site, (especially since it has only existed for a brief [...]

The baby furniture we ordered has arrived!!! Besides Amy’s belly, this is another huge realization that a baby will be here soon! It also means that it is time to get my butt in gear!!!
We have been putting off painting the baby’s room for awhile now for a couple of reasons. [...]

I just wanted to give everyone a heads up that my first podcast will be up this week. Look for it here on either this site, the rss feed, or in iTunes!!! I ask that if you like it, subscribe to it through iTunes!!!
Oh, and we bought a video camera this past weekend! [...]

Well, it was confirmed on Friday that Amy does have Gestational diabetes. This is basically when a pregnant women becomes diabetic due to their pregnancy. What does it mean?
Well, at first, not much. Amy needs to work with her regular doctor and current baby doctor to find out if it could be [...]

In the morning Amy has to go for a Level II Glucose test. This consists of fasting tonight, then showing up at the lab at the hospital at 7 tomorrow morning. Once there, Amy will drink this sugar solution then we just sit there and wait, and wait, and wait. Oh, yeah, [...]

Yesterday I showed Amy what I had been up to for the past few days and told her my intentions for this little slice of the internet, and she dug it!!
She will probably post here and there and may even take part in the podcasts! We shall see! I’m hoping to do my [...]

To this point, Amy’s pregnancy seems to consist of the following:

Dr. Appt’s
Ice Cream
Tests
Ice Cream
Dr. Appt’s

Well, I guess you get the picture. At this point, we really haven’t done much around the house. We do have furniture on order and have registered.
Registering for a baby is the best thing going. There are literally [...]

So I’m still learning everything about Wordpress, the software that actually runs this site. It’s pretty dynamic and you can pretty much do anything you want in the form of a layout. I’ll try to leave things like this for the time being, but I’m sure it will always be evolving!
I’ll probably start [...]

Hi my name is Brian and my wife and I are expecting our first child this October! (thank you, thank you) If you have made it this far, you probably already know what the name will be. Technically it is still a secret from our friends and family, but don’t [...]