Congratulations - thought you had been a bit quiet lately

Cheers,
Chris

Congratulations!  First child?

Hey, hey, congratulations! That was the third already, no? Beats me!

Congrats!

Congratulations Bob!

4th, actually.   

Nice daddy.

Congratulations Mr. Montgomery !

Simone

Nice Bob. All that, and you have time for homebrewing too? I'm impressed.

Well, this is homebrewing too. Of a sort.

Congrats!

Nathan Strum, on Mon Apr 7, 2008 8:46 PM, said:

Except with 2600 homebrewing, the creation is hard work and the result is fun, not the other way around...

The result is fun, too...just a different sort of fun.

wow cool. 4 isn't as common now. I have 3 sibs

congrats to you and your wife, take care

David

Do you really use the words godfather and godparenthood? I was looking up the german words "Patenonkel", "Pate" and "Taufpate" and in all cases it delivered godfather.

In english language context so far I only associated this with the movie, i.e. the mafia

The traditional concept behind a "Patenschaft" is basically that when both parents get run over by a bus for example, the underage children will get adopted and raised by the "Paten".

Coming back to what I originally wanted to say, my sister-in-law is giving birth to a son while I'm writing this and she chose me to become his uhm... godfather

This is a great honor, I'm looking forward to that

BTW: It doesn't just mean I'm responsible for the boy in the worst case, but also that I will have to care more about him, than a random other child within the family. You know, bigger birthday/x-mas presents, having him visiting during school vacations, etc.

Do you have godparents assigned for your children as well, Bob?

EDIT: I think you know the concept as well in the states, I just remembered that I once saw a King of Queens episode dealing with that topic

No, no godparents.  Godparents come from roman catholicism, originally, and I ain't roman catholic.    Has to do with infant baptism and such.

I see. In our family it has lost most of the religious meaning. I couldn't even be a religious godfather, since I seceded from the Evangelical Church.

Yeah, I think it has lost much of its religious significance most places.