Its an exciting time for us. I keep thinking about how when you are young you are in a family, then how when you go off to college you leave that family and all responsibility except for classes. If you want to stay out til 4 am or sleep in til noon no one will yell at you and you get to manage yourself.
When you leave school you get a job, and that usually puts you on a schedule. Then you get married and have to tell someone when you will be home and you can't just run around without a care anymore.
We are at that spot right now...the baby is safe and fed and watered where she is right now, we can go out shopping, we can go to a movie, there is no baby to take care of. When we sleep the house sleeps. In a few days all that will change...there will be three of us.
I am excited and looking forward to being Daddy, but I am also melancholy about the "newlyweds" part of our lives ending. I guess we now move into the "young family" phase, and its something I am really looking forward to. Its just so strange the finality of turning this page on life...even when we become empty nesters later on it won't be like it was these past few years.
A lot of different conflicting words describe the way I feel about entering the family phase, but I am more excited and anxious than anything else.
#1 Re: No Baby Yet
I realized when my first was born that a lot of times we live in the past or look forward to the future, but there are only a few times when you are actually aware of the moment. This will be one of them.