It’s a whole new day at Both Hands and a Flashlight!
Mary and I are overjoyed to announce that I am not pregnant! Phew. However, Mary is!!!!!!!!!
Yep, that was a bun in the oven. Mary has a hysterical story to tell about that, at my expense of course. But I’m a good sport about it.
It’s amazing how much a single word on a high-tech, digital, ‘dummy-proof’, peed-on stick can change everything, even when you’re hoping for it. However, for me, finding out the positive test involved a hot dog bun. There is a LOT we haven’t blogged about over the past month as we waited for the right time to spring the good tidings on the world. We have much ground to cover there, and we’ll get to all the news recap soon.
Officially, Mary is 10 weeks along and is due in early May. After J-Man was The World’s Easiest Pregnancy (TM), according to Mary, she has lots of new, choice, family-unfriendly words to say about this time around. More from her on that to come, too.
I figured why not celebrate such a life-changing announcement by completely redoing the look and layout of the blog. I picked something sorta autumnal for the color scheme, so this blog may have mood colors for a while until we settle on something we like.
I also wanted to do something to keep the quality of the site ever-improving for the growing numbers of visitors, both those of you who have been so nice, insightful, and supportive of us as well as those who just lurk (which is fine!). At the top of the page, you’ll see a tab that takes you to a collection of links and resources related to all the things we talk about here in the Flashlight Universe. Go check out those links! We have much more to add, but it’s a start.
We also have lots more new stuff planned, so stay tuned. As the wise man said, “Business is about to pick up.” More soon!
Just for fun, we’ll leave you with what I think may be the best commercial ever.
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Congratulations! (I suspected that you might be expecting when you said you had news.) And I like the new look of the site!
Thanks and thanks!
Mary has a handful of posts queued up in the unpublished folder since they all pertain to pregnancy, and largely to barfing a lot as well. They’ll be up soon, though sans graphic pictures or anything.
I like the new layout and think it’s way more readable, am still iffy on the colors, and the banner is really bland, so one of my eventual projects is a new logo/banner. I’m a geeky tinkerer like that.
I tend to be a content-first person, so that’ll get more of our ‘time’. (time? what’s that?)
Congratulations!
And I think that commercial looks like it’s geared toward men. Maybe to get more men to buy home pregnancy tests for their partners? I know my kiddo’s dad bought mine. ;^)
Congratulations! And very nice design.
Wahoo! Congratulations to you, and thanks for sharing the commercial, one of my husband’s favorites. It seems tailor-made for my less-than-brilliant cousin, who believed that she was having a girl when she peed on a stick and the little plus sign was pink. Yikes.
@ Beth - You’re among multiple people who have said that to me. I guess it talks about electronics and bodily functions, so there could be something to that male demographic thing.
@ magicdrgn - Thanks!!
@ Lisa - Reminds me of the Jeff Foxworthy bit about finding one of his relatives staring at a juice container because it said “Concentrate”.
I can’t remember where I read this, but someone was saying that a co-worker was trying not to get pregnant but her religious beliefs prevented her from using anything other than the rhythm method. So they were trying to teach her how to count days and all that, and she asked “Is that business days?” Sometimes makes you think there should be a test or something that says, “You really shouldn’t be getting pregnant.”
WOO HOO!!!!!! Congratulations Tim & Mary!!