New additions

The Chubbs and Hot Wife extended family has grown by one more, this one a pint-sized precious little princess, born to Hot Wife's Sis and The Major.

We wish them all the best as first they recover from a difficult labour, then as they adapt to life as a family of three.

It was only four years ago that Hot Wife and I experienced the same joy of welcoming our first baby into the world, yet it seems like it has already been a lifetime.

And while the sleepless nights and initial angst that accompanies first-time parenthood faded long ago, the pleasures of raising children have given even those memories of anguish and exhaustion a small bit of lustre, if for no other reason than because we can look back on the early struggles thinking that it wasn't so bad afterall.

That could also just be the vasectomy talking.

In any case, to Hot Wife's Sis and The Major, we say congratulations on the new addition, and wish you sleep in at least four hour blocks at a time.

And speaking of new additions, your fair blogger is sporting one of his own these days, in the form of a greasy, ugly, quasi-pornstache, as part of this year's Movember campaign of awareness for prostate cancer.

I have pledged my face to the cause, and for thirty days am shaving everything but my upper lip.

Two weeks in, I can say with certainly that I unequivocally hate it.

It's a look that I cannot pull-off. Also a look that was universally panned when I posed the question to the Confessions of a Blogophobe readership two years ago.

Not much has changed two years later. It is still U-G-L-Y.

But I am growing it anyway, to help raise money for prostate cancer research, and awareness of the cause.

I would almost rather have another baby.

Almost.

Of course that opinion will likely change when I start hearing stories of my new niece's sleepless nights, at which time I will probably think to myself that I would rather just grow an ugly moustache.