No Words will do this Justice

Bill and I have talked about kids for a long time… a really long time. We are coming up on our 14th year together, and kids were part of the discussion way back in the beginning. I think as a young couple we just assumed that dating, marriage, and kids were all part of everyone’s plan. As the years kept moving forward, though, we did a pretty decent job of following our own time frame. After all, it took us 6 years to get married – it seems appropriate that we waited another 7 for a baby.

Over these past years we’ve had incredible adventures together – moving around the globe, creating a home, new jobs, traveling, and establishing our own traditions. It’s been a wonderful, wild ride, and I can’t deny that we were nervous to alter it all with the biggest life changer of all. But once we made the decision, I felt a great sense of relief. We have been so lucky to experience the love of being part of family – and truly, time with my nieces and nephews has been more fun and rewarding than I would have ever thought. I can’t imagine a life where we would’ve denied ourselves the second part of the family experience.

We’ll definitely start out like every other new parent in the world… sleepless, confused, lost, and 100% in love with our baby. We already are! We’ll find ourselves doing the things we swore we’d never do… We’ll be more strict that we’d imagined… We’ll let a lot of things go that we used to be appalled by. I know that we will never, ever be the same once this baby arrives. This is the very thought that scared me to death before I started walking around with this little human inside of me. Now it’s the thought that makes me happiest in life.

So, as long as this is a rather sappy post, I might as well mention that I am married to the most  wonderful man. I can’t wait to see him as a daddy. He’s been incredible these past months (and always). I can’t believe he’s mine!