My little man and one big SNAFU.

Here is a picture of my boy Drew when he was about a week old. Future ball player for sure! Well here is where the SNAFU comes in. In case you don' know SNAFU is a military term for "Situation Normal All Fu>>ed Up"

I video taped his birth. From the time about an hour before to well after he was delivered via c-section.

I had the tape in my camcorders and kept adding to it even after we got home. About two weeks ago my daughter Cori had a school play that she was in. So I go to swap out tapes in my camcorders. I pull out the new tape I'm going to use and take the old one out of the camcorders. I have them sitting together on the floor right in front of me. Something must have distracted me or something because I put the tape of his birth back into the camcorders. I had rewound it first so I could not have known which was which.

Then it happens SNAFU!!!! I recorded over his birth with my daughters school play. Well a few weeks go by and I'm in Arizona at my brothers house and I'm going to show it to him and Karen. That's when I noticed it.

So when I get home and back to work on Monday I still have not told my wife, Natalie yet Know I know, you don't have to say it I'm digging a deeper hole. I looked on the internet and called a bunch of video recovery specialist from New Jersey to Los Angeles. Same story at all of them I'm screwed!!!

When I told Natalie, it was bad. She is still upset over the whole thing and pissed off at me. I did not do it on purpose it was a big mistake on my end. I am the one who will have to live with it. Here is the real kicker, I had to have a DVD recorder when he was a week old so I could make DVD copies of his birth for family members. Yeah you guessed it, I never got around to it.

Life has been tough here this week. But long after her anger is gone, my guilt will last.

My family is my life. I have found that friends come and go in this life but your family is your family for life. Now we are not the Brady Bunch or nothing. I have brothers and sisters that we just don't talk, or even care to talk. But then again I have brothers and a sister that are close to me and I love dearly.

Take care of your family's, and do the best you can in this life , because of these two things you only get one.

Jim