I guess it’ll take a while to sink in, but I still don’t feel like this is really happening. We’re having a baby. I’m pregnant! We decided to start trying in November…and it worked. Many couples try for so long and I am so grateful that it was easy for us.
Sam and I have in us this need to justify to our family and friends, why we would desire to bring a child into our family when we don’t own a house and when money is still tight. Whether or not you agree with us, we’d like to give you a quick rundown of our process.
Speaking honestly, the final decision to have a baby was easy. We've talked about it, made plans for it, and prayed about it for two years now. But when it came down to it, we want and believe we are ready for children (well, as ready as anyone ever is). Since we started dating, we’ve talked about wanting children—biological and adopted.
We believe that through our work and God’s provision, we’ll be fine financially. We won’t have the biggest house and the finest toys, but we’ll be together and happy. If we were to wait until we had all of our debt paid off, it would be at least 6 years and that is just longer than we want to wait.
We could wait and pay off debt and save for a house, but we realized that there’s nothing wrong with staying in our apartment. It’s a nice apartment…big, first floor, nice balcony…we’re happy there. Having a child means that our debt will be paid off over a longer period of time, but we think it’s worth it. We don’t want to live in slavery—unable to do the things we really want to do because we have debt. We’re going to live…but we will live smartly.
So please don’t worry about us. Please be happy for us, because we are so happy. It’s a dream come true for both of us and I am so blessed to be doing this with the love of my life. I don’t know many other men that would immediately start a blog to write about the process of pregnancy and child-rearing and who would volunteer to take a photo of my belly every night. He didn’t freak out when I told him and he is so excited and supportive. He’s so stable when I’m not and I thank God for him.
I love you, Pooks, and I couldn’t be more excited to do this with you.
Here we go!
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Timing, schmiming! What exactly is the "right time to have a baby"? I say it is when two people are in love and desire to bring more love into the world in the form of a sweet little baby. I say it is when the wife's mother is so anxious to become a grandmother that she is about to explode. Who needs beautiful furniture and a house? When you hold that baby in your arms for the first time, everything else will seem so very unimportant. You have always been a very creative, artistic person, but what you are creating now is the most unbelievable, beautiful expression of God's love for mankind. Not to worry about the future. God has always provided for us and He always will. I haven't been this excited or happy since my own pregnancies. I'm already thinking about what songs I want to sing to your belly so that the baby will recognize me right away when I sing a lullaby. Excited??? Happy??? Who me???????
Granny (oh yeah!)
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