You'll Never Truly Be Ready...

I haven't gotten personal on this little blog in a while.... so here it goes...

Thankfully, we haven't felt any pressure from either side of our family to have a baby which is really surprising since we've been married for almost 3 and 1/2 years. At first our plan was to wait a year after the wedding to start trying... then we wanted to be in our house for a year... and then it was I want to wait until after this vacation and that vacation. I've heard it over and over again... you will never really feel ready and there will always be excuses and no one is getting any younger over here.

Something HUGE hit me the other day... the longer WE wait the less time our kids will have with their grandparents and that breaks my heart. My grandparents were such a huge part of my life and I can't imagine it any other way.

..... but what if I never get my body back after working so hard to get to my ideal healthy weight?

......but what will I do when my friends are still out having a good time and I'm too exhausted/nauseous from being pregnant to even think about tagging along even though I can no longer drink?

..... how will traveling be while pregnant?

..... will I really never be able to sleep in again?

..... is it really going to put the kibosh on our sex life?

..... will I really have to give up caffeine? Girlfriend lives for her cup of yummy goodness in the morning!

..... how will Roxy react to a new baby and no longer being the princess of the house?

But you know what will trump all of that?! 

..... the unconditional love we'll both feel for our little bundle of joy

..... seeing H holding our baby for the 1st time

..... seeing the joy on our parent's faces when they see their grandchild for the 1st time

..... raising and helping to mold that beautiful baby into an amazing person

..... a little itty bitty adorable mini-version of H and I combined

..... decorating the nursery!

..... dinners out without a huge bar bill. It'll be nice to not be paying more for booze than for food on date nights

..... knowing that the baby was part of God's perfect plan for our lives

I guess the moral of the story is no one is ever truly ready and there will always be what if's but the what will be's totally outweigh them.