March Madness is one of my favorite times of the year, so I have decided to update the blog today instead of Lindsay. Today, millions of people went into work and thought about filling out their brackets or who was their sleeper pick in the tournament. Most years this is all that March Madness would mean to me too, but this year is a lot more special. Instead of filling out brackets, Lindsay and I (with a lot of help from her Mom) are filling out the nursery. We don't care about picking a good sleeper team in the tournament, we're just hoping for a baby that is a good sleeper.
This year will be the most memorable March Madness of my life and not because I'm going to have a perfect bracket or win the $100 from our office pool. This year during March Madness, Lindsay and I will become parents, our parents will become grandparents, our grandparents will become great grandparents and Lindsay even has a great grandmother who will become a great great grandmother. It is a very exciting time for us and we are so blessed to have family and friends as loving and wonderful as we do during this time. Thank you to all of you for your warm wishes, wonderful gifts and just everyone's overall support.
Becoming a father will be a dream come true to me and something that I have always thought of as the greatest experience for a man during his lifetime. Ten years ago, during my high school's "Mr. Menendez" competition, I was asked "Where do you see yourself in ten years?" My response was "I see myself as a father to a son, who is a boy...." Of course I was a bit nervous and the moderator asking the question responded with "Yes Tyler, a son is a boy" which got a good laugh out of the crowd. Being a Dad is something that I have always wanted to do and beginning in the next week or two I'll take my first steps down the path of fatherhood.
I'm sure Lindsay will be updating the blog in the next day or two with more pictures of the nursery. Lindsay and Ellen (Lindsay's mom) did a fabulous job on the room and spent hours this past weekend putting some final touches on it and it looks amazing. This is while Marc (Lindsay's Dad) and I spent a hard weekend at the ACC tournament watching Duke and Carolina battle it out for the ACC championship, which brings me to a story of how March Madness has always been a part of my life since the very beginning.
I was born on March 10, 1984 which was the semi-finals of the ACC tournament. Duke and UNC were playing for a spot in the ACC championship game when I decided it was time to come out. My parents rushed to the hospital and of course like any great man would do, my Dad tried to not only be there for his wife during her time of need, but also pay attention to the basketball score in case she wanted to know who was winning. Well I was born that night, shortly after the game was finished. The game was such a great game, that my Dad wanted to name me after the winning team. Luckily my Mom would never allow that to happen and good thing too, because Duke won the game 77-75 and I'm not sure how I would have turned out if my name was Duke Key.
