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Oct 27, 2009 I baby.It’s been a long time since I’ve blogged anything of any form of worth, but there has been a semi-valid reason for it. Earlier today we finally let the good news out that Beth and I are expecting our first kid, due early May 2010. It’s something that has been brewing for not just the past 12 weeks, but for a few months prior as well. It’s been something that’s been taking up a fair bit of my headspace – yet it was something we decided early on to keep to ourselves.
It’s a life-changing thing we’re facing. Everything from this point onwards changes – our plans, decisions, actions all now include another life. I’m now responsible for another person; Beth and I now have the task of raising from scratch a new person. I’d be lying if I didn’t say it was daunting, but it’s oh-so-exciting at the same time. This is something I’ve wanted since around the time I came of responsible age, and now it’s finally here.
I’ve wanted to share things over the past several weeks, but haven’t as we kept things quiet. Now that things are out in the open, I’m hoping that it’ll be somewhat of a catalyst to get me writing and posting a bit more. Beth has a pregnancy journal that she writes things in each week, observations about herself, the baby, how everything is going. This may be something of my journal, a place for me to record things as they happen. And then, in May, to celebrate the new member of our family. I promise I’m not going to make an instantaneous transformation into a daddy-blogger. There’s still a lot of other things on my and our plates – work, photography, holidays, being an Aunty and Uncle in January, and house-mates to a set of twins in March to name a few. But with this being one of the biggest changes in my life, how can I not share about it?
I’m back. That much I know!