Thoughts on life
I keep telling myself that I should write more in my journal. I have plenty of time at work, but I never seem to get around to it, I always have something else that seems more pressing.
So far we have told almost everyone about our exciting news, but I should post it here as well. We have exactly 36 weeks to go before our bundle of joy shows up. Yes Leanne is pregnant and she is still reeling from the news.(more on this later) I have had a lot of fun telling everyone about baby on the way. We started with some really close friends and then moved on to our families. I started with my brother Colin who I had to email because he isn’t very good about keeping in touch, and then called my sister Emily who is going to school in Northern California. My parents and other two sisters we just told on Wednesday night in St Paul at a little pace called Cafe Latte. I thought my poor mother was going faint dead away she was so shocked. I just kind of flippantly mentioned it in passing to see if anyone would notice what I said. Hillary and Carrie didn’t believe me and my poor mother looked like she was going to hyperventilate. I love payback!!! When my parents told me about my sister Carrie’s impending birth I was so scared I actually did start to hyperventilate.
As everyone says this is going to be a big change. Leanne and I have always enjoyed our carefree no kids’ lifestyle we have been happily married now for 6 ½ years and enjoyed all of it except the first year(j/K). There are times when I wish it could go on forever and times when I feel like we need to do some more growing up and tackle the next step in life. I am 28 now and Leanne is going to be 28 in June so it isn’t like we aren’t old enough to start having kids. I know Leanne is scared about having a newborn, and honestly I am a scared as well, but it is something we are just going to have to do. I told Leanne that having a newborn is kind of like being sick. To get through it you have to think in 5 days I am going to be feeling just fine. Of course with a baby you don’t start to see the light at the end of the tunnel for 6 months, or 18 years depending how you look at it!!