Well, my wife had a healthy baby boy at 6:32 am EST this morning. It’s our second, and (pending a big surprise) last child.
When I first started the entrepreneurial route, my wife and I had a philosophical discussion that went like this: What if we lose all of our money by pursuing this venture? And ultimately we concluded that, worst case, we’d rent out a trailer and work hard to eventually get back on our feet. But we still had each other, and we’d still enjoy the ride.
I feel blessed to have a terrific family and work that I love. And good health.
Maybe pithy and certainly not a blog entry that’s going to generate more sales for anyone reading it, but perspective is a big part of the game.
Back to the real work, which at this moment happens to be driving my wife’s knitting project back to the hospital, as she forgot it in the rush of her water breaking….
October 1st, 2004 at 8:55 am
congratulations!
Have you named him yet?
October 1st, 2004 at 9:05 am
Interesting, of course perspective is required to do something like you have done. Anyone know of a book or article(s) regarding an entrepreneur in business, and family life (wife, kids, etc..)??
October 1st, 2004 at 9:20 am
Congratulations Andrew and proud mother :)
October 1st, 2004 at 9:29 am
do u plan to blog his life?
October 1st, 2004 at 10:29 am
Congratulations and best wishes to you and your family
October 1st, 2004 at 10:42 am
Congrats! Don’t forget to post a pic, name, and the URL of his first blog! :-)
October 1st, 2004 at 10:48 am
Congratulations
October 1st, 2004 at 2:23 pm
you know a blog addict when you see one: he’s blogging 17 mins after the birth of his child..
October 1st, 2004 at 3:06 pm
Hey Andrew,
Congratulations to you both!
Steve
October 1st, 2004 at 3:12 pm
Congratulations!
October 1st, 2004 at 4:30 pm
Congradualations, and good breaking news :D
October 1st, 2004 at 6:15 pm
Congratulations and best wishes.
October 2nd, 2004 at 1:04 am
Congratulations on becoming a father once more. Coindentally for us the road to being an entrepreneur began with the birth of our first son about 7 years ago…
And the conversations always went on the lines you describe - we had even coined a word for it “Max-what-if?”
October 2nd, 2004 at 3:24 am
Oh, well done! Isn’t birth exciting?
(If it weren’t that I’m not completely stupid, I would have had six :))
October 2nd, 2004 at 9:49 am
Congratulations!And I agrree,perspective is a big part of the game.
October 2nd, 2004 at 12:17 pm
Congrats! Family, health and career, you get all!
October 2nd, 2004 at 3:12 pm
Congratulations, Andrew. My sincerest best wishes to both you and your family!
October 2nd, 2004 at 5:40 pm
Congratulations and the best wishes!
October 3rd, 2004 at 11:40 pm
Wow, never know how many actually read a blog till you have a baby huh? :-) Congrats again!
October 4th, 2004 at 12:12 am
Congratulations from all of us. I just had my second the other week as well, so I’m totally with you on the perspective aspect.
October 4th, 2004 at 5:10 am
Yup congratulations! Kids help define life’s perspectives and probably more importantly, also allow you to see the world through their very simple eyes, which sometimes brings you back down to earth with a huge bump. My little one is 5 and when she turned round and said ‘why are you home Daddy? Mummy dosen’t want you anymore because you don’t love her!’ I realised just what hell I had been putting my family through because of my work. Needless to say my dear ones now come first, always.
October 4th, 2004 at 9:45 am
Congrats!
October 4th, 2004 at 2:03 pm
Congratulations!
Will you turn this blog into a kind of TRUMAN SHOW? :p
my 2nd son will born this month too, and we have the same conversations with my wife.
October 6th, 2004 at 7:06 pm
Congratulations! We just had our first baby not too long ago (well, 7 months - time flies!).