Recent content by SoontoBe

Taxes never seem fair to the people who have to pay them. We have become a country where the rich are very rich and are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer and the middle class bears the brunt of everything. They are being worked slam to death with no way of digging out of it.

When the wife goes to her obstetrician visits, how many of you tag along? I went to the first one and have met the doctor twice more so far, but I can't see taking off work every time she has a check-up. My wife says she doesn't care, but is this something I'll regret later on? I plan to be...

We don't have a lot of space now in our apartment, but once we move, a new big television is on the wish list. The baby is going to be needing lots of room to crawl around and put his or her toys. No t.v. is on the list for awhile.

I get pretty much support from my family. Maybe I'd get them to stop treating me like I'm an only child, but since I am an only child, they don't know how to do otherwise. Maybe when the baby comes along we'll have folks to share all the attention.

I'm highly mathematical like my mom, but I love to grow things. I get that from my father. We love to build things together around the farm. We tried putting up one of those corn mazes one time and had giant creatures made from pvc pipe and fabric that rose up out of the fields at night. We were...

Wilson, I'm having a good little chuckle picturing you and your wife trying to squeeze into one set of pants. It doesn't help that I'm picturing Tom Hanks and Wilson from the "Castaway" movie at the same time. You sound like you two have a good marriage.

Paul, more power to you. I'd rather buy the expensive jewelry that do housework and cooking. My mom's coming in to help with that. Seriously, you've given me some ideas. We need a heating pad, so that's an idea for a little present. I am leaning toward buying her a piece of jewelry and having it...

I've been thinking about what to buy my wife as a gift after our baby is born that will have special meaning to her. I know red roses are good. What have others bought for their baby's mother to let her know how much you love her at this time?

We did this when we had to, mostly when we were living in apartments and as college students. We're both out working now, so it's easier to trade part of our paychecks for basic necessities. Still, I remember those days of making do. We raided Mom's pantry, too.

Tetris got my dad started. I think it came out on the GameBoy. He loved it and it was never out of his hands. My mom tried to learn to play, but Dad was always on the GameBoy.

I used to pick gourds and sell them to people to paint. It didn't hurt that I painted lots of them as Santas, ghosts and snowmen during the proper season. I always sold out of them. We were lucky and lived on a farm. I started about age 12.

It's little things like this that cause big rifts in a marriage. Do you think you could sit down and talk with her, tell her how much she means to you and that it makes you think she doesn't care for you and respect you because of the way she treats your things? Then take her to dinner or...

This situation sounds like the one in the movie, "Steel Magnolias." The girl in that movie, played by Julia Roberts ends up dying because of some illness she had at one point. I don't even want to think about this since my wife is pregnant now.

Even the Mormon Church has stated that large families are no longer necessary. They leave it up to the couple and the Lord. I shudder every time I hear about that other family that has around 20 children. For me, it's akin to child abuse. They say they can handle it. I totally don't understand.

I'm enjoying my last days of freedom. When the new year gets here, I've got marching orders to clear out the spare room, do some wall repair and paint it to start work on a baby nursery. The wife says she'll take it from there. That's to be seen.