#4...

will be making his or her appearance in the Ramsey household sometime in late september or early october this fall. Shannon wrote that if Favre retiring didn't get me to blog again, nothing would. and i thought i can't blog about brett favre but not about having another kid...

so, as if everyone doesn't already know this, we found out a few weeks ago that we are having another kid. a last kid. we debated having #4 and came up with some good reasons to have another go at it (we really like the first three, it'll be fun for abigail to have a baby around the house, many years from now it'll be fun to get together with this family, it increases the odds one will strike it rich and take care of us in our retirement, etc.), we couldn't think of a reason not to that didn't relate to money or our convenience. those didn't seem to outweigh the reasons to have a kid... until we found out we're having one. now i'm freaking out just a little about the money and convenience stuff. i'll be over it by fall...

and, as if everyone doesn't also know this, brett favre is retiring. thanks for your condolences. i was pretty sure he was coming back until that devastating loss to the giants. everything went their way this year, they played a horrible game and still only lost in overtime. the odds of that repeating itself next year seems slim, and even as a fan it's hard to get yourself excited about next season because of it. i get why he's walking away now...

favre said he's tired. tired up the public exposure. tired of studying each week to be ready for sunday. tired of feeling like he has to outdo his performance from the last week. i realized that i pretty much feel the same way about my job, so i'm announcing my retirement from visio dei and freeing up some room in the salary cap...

anyways, i'll miss watching him play. he was maddening at times, and i won't miss the bonehead interceptions that characterized the last few years, but he was really fun to watch, and easy to admire. this article, from a few days before his retirement announcement, does a good job of describing what i'll miss. he's a bit of an everyman, just seems like a normal guy that you'd love to hang out with. i feel a little bit like i felt the last time i broke up with a girl. you know it has to happen and it's for the best (in the long run), but you wonder when a relationship like it will come around again. in this case, i'm guessing there'll never be a player i enjoy watching and admire as much as favre.

unless michael's prediction comes true. last night i broke the news to the boys that favre decided he didn't want to play football anymore. michael said, 'maybe i should play football.' and then when i told him to tell jason who green bay's next quarterback was going to be, he said, 'i am'. nice. actually, the thing that upsets me the most about all this is that i bought the boys new favre jerseys at the end of last season, thinking they could where them for at least one more. i wonder if he'd give me a refund...