It's been 'One Week'

My guess is that most of you are familiar with the song 'One Week' by The Barenaked Ladies.  It is probably the groups most well known song.  I want to say that this song reached the height of its popularity sometime in 2000.  All I know is that I was either a freshman or sophmore in high school when The Barenaked Ladies played a show in St. Louis at the Fox Theater.  I went to this concert really only knowing the song 'One Week'.  The show was AMAZING.  They were/are such a fun group to see live.  I was hooked on their music from that night on.  I have tied their music to some of my fondest memories of high school and college and even post college.

Much to my dismay one of the lead singers of Barenaked Ladies left the group.  As far as I knew the group was totally split up and they would no longer be producing music or touring.  On our 3rd wedding anniversary Keith surprised me by getting me tickets to go see a Barenaked Ladies concert.  I was SO excited.  Although one of the main members of the group was gone I was pumped that they were still touring.  We had been looking forward to the night of the concert for several weeks.  Minutes before Keith's Mom arrived at our house to watch Colin so that we could leave for the concert we found out the most amazing thing ever.... I was pregnant!!!  Excitement doesn't begin to describe our feelings that night.  All I know is that we will never forget that concert or that night!

Now it has officially been 'One Week' since our beautiful baby girl was born.  My eyes are filling with tears of happiness now as I think about how wonderful this past week has been.  Filled with many firsts; first night at home, first bath, first family walk, first trip to the grocery store.  As I sit with my newborn baby girl I am so aware of how precious this time with her is.  I know that things will never be like this again with her.  I will treasure every second I have with her in these early weeks of her life.

When I let myself think about the future with our two wonderful children I can barely contain myself.  I love that anything really is possible for Colin and Tess.  I can easily get too ahead of myself so for now I am just going to love them like crazy.