Baby Memoirs - Danger: Baby Making and Your Life Changing Forever is Highly Probable
Wednesday, September 8, 2010 at 11:38PM William Foote For a long while now, my wife and I have been extremely excited about the prospects of starting a family. Our time frame has been “in the not too distant future” for about two years or so. The key term of course being “future”, which is a ballpark generalization comforting enough to keep me excited about the concept without any sort of corresponding anxiety on the matter.
Well, just very recently, we have decided that the “future” is now. It is now for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is father-time bearing down on our mid-thirties age range. Our ultimate desire to have more than just one child would seem to validate further this “future is now” timeframe.
I’d like to put it out on the table that I am very committed to going about the “having a baby” process the right way, but let me also say, it’s all a bit weird in my opinion. In addition to the $70 per bottle vitamins my wife has been ordered to take by the baby making authorities, my wife has also just downloaded an iPhone App named “iPeriod”. This nifty little thing more or less is supposed to let us know the exact days my wife will be ovulating. Setting aside the fact I do not really know what ovulating means, I went ahead and filled out my own calendar according to the instructions provided by this magical $0.99 cell phone application.
At this point I was actually feeling pretty good about my emotional progress and overall commitment to the team. In fact, I was very much looking forward to my wife seeing how on top of things I was when filling her in on my handy calendar work. Her response has not been quite as I had hoped though, mainly because she happened to catch a peek when my calendar alert popped up and saw it was labeled in bold red letters as; “Danger: baby making and your life changing forever highly likely!”.
Yes, I have a few issues still needing to be worked through regarding all this. I’ll get there though.
Reader Comments (2)
I thoroughly enjoyed reading all of your articles. What a great son in-law I have. I am looking forward to your success in changing your life forever!
That is extremely kind, thank you. Stay tuned for more articles and perhaps even a baby in the future.