Paddy gave me the idea today to start a pool for the birth of our child, and the wheels started turning. At first I thought I’d start a thread, and people could start guessing…but that seemed boring.

Instead, what if there is a wager!? My initial thoughts are as follows. Everyone can get in the pool for $5. The winning guess gets half, and the baby gets the other half (breast pumps are expensive! haha). Here’s how the guessing would work: Everyone would guess both a DATE and TIME on the hour. So for example, you could guess March 21st (the due date) at 5 pm. No 5:12 pm and 14 seconds nonsense. Then whoever is closest to the actual time of birth wins.

So who is interested? Five bucks seems reasonable. We could do paypal, you could hand me five dollars, or you could send me a $5 bill wrapped in a piece of paper through the mail (seems safe enough). How many takers before I make this official?

Edit: I suppose it could also be that the winner gets everything. I’ve never done a pool, so whatever people say goes. And yes Trent, the doctor says the due date is March 21st. They haven’t given us an update, and I think at this point, if they do, we’ll have to keep that a secret so the game stays fair.