My first batch of homebrew

So I finally got the equipment together and after watching a couple instructional DVDs a few dozen times, I took the plunge and made my first batch. I chose a kit from Homebrew Haven called Wizard's Wheat. It's supposed to be a Hefeweizen and while it doesn't look quite right, it tastes fantastic. I'm writing this months afterward so I'm sure I'll forget a few details but hopefully I'll get it mostly right. In an effort to streamline and simplify I decided to not take any gravity readings as it seemed I'd only need them to determine the final alcohol content and since I didn't care what it was, why bother taking the readings.
I set up my propane burner on the deck near the water hose and fired it up. I'm pretty sure I just used tap water without filtering it. I crunched the veggies a little and tossed them into the tea bag and brought it up to about 170 degrees and removed it. It took a little while to get it to that temperature and I swirled the bag around and squished it a little here and there to get as much of the veggie goodness out of it as I could.
I continued to heat the water until it came to a boil and then I carefully added the malt extract. Adding the malt extract was a little tricky. It will fairly easily boil over if you aren't careful. After all of the malt was added I brought the mix back to a good "rolling" boil. This part was also a little tricky as I tried to keep the mix rolling but not boiling over. It boiled for 1 hour total.
At 45 minutes I added some hops for flavor and a "clarifier" tablet and let it continue boiling. It was about this time that I placed the Wort Chiller into the mix to sterilize it.
At 58 minutes I added some more hops for aroma.
At 1 hour I turned off the burner and turned on the water flowing into the Wort Chiller. When it got down to about 85 degrees I turned off the water and removed the Wort Chiller. At this point I recall being worried that my thermometer was broken as it seemed fixed at 80 degrees.
I carefully poured the wort from the brew pot into the primary fermenter. Placed the lid on the bucket and placed the air lock in the hole in the lid. Then I carried the beer to the basement, covered it with a paper bag, except for the air lock and left it for a couple weeks. I probably should have moved it sooner but my schedule at the time kept me busy and as I recall the bubbling was a little to vigorous for awhile anyway. Eventually I transferred the beer to the secondary fermenter, the glass carboy.
According to the instructions it should have completed secondary fermentation in a few weeks. After a month or so it was still producing a bubble 40 or so seconds. I was sure I screwed up somewhere so I called Homebrew Haven to ask them what I should do. I have to admit they weren't any help. The guy on the phone asked me about the beginning gravity reading that I had never taken. As I write this I now now that what he may have meant to say was that I should take three gravity readings over three days and when the readings stop changing it will be safe to bottle my beer. At this point I wanted to ask a friend at work who brews what I should do but I didn't see him for a few weeks. It seems that it was close to two months before I finally ran into Doug and consulted him about my concerns.
Doug was extremely helpful. He told me that my beer was fine. Wheat beers should ferment longer because they are using a more robust yeast strain. Basically my beer was safe and I should check it again in another week. If it still wasn't ready I should wait another week and check it again. But most importantly my beer was going to be OK if it sat longer. It felt like it was close to three months before the air lock showed a single bubble every almost three minutes.
I bottled it and put it up to condition it. I tried some in two weeks and it was mighty tasty. It didn't have much of a head at first but as time went by it started to develop one. This beer turned out to be incredibly good and I'm a tad stressed that I know it'll be months before I have more made.
My next brew day is the Saturday after Thanksgiving. I'll have some friends over along with my sons and wife to help. They all are interested in what I'm doing. Hopefully I won't make a mess :p