The Things People Say (and my subsequent thoughts)

There are a few things that people have said to me since the incepction of our conception. Here are a couple:

"It's early to tell people."

My understanding of the "wait to tell" theory of pregnancy is that, in case something goes wrong, you won't have to then tell everyone you know of the unfortunate event.

This may not be true for everyone but my untested opinion is tell all and tell early. When we told our parents, they were delirious with happiness. Every extra day of anticipation is an extra day of excitement for them. Why should we deprive them of that? Plus we won't ever have to answer the "When are you guys going to have kids already?" question again.

"Are you excited?"

Well, maybe I should answer this question delicately... Excitement isn't really the correct term for what I'm feeling. I'm certainly looking forward to going flying with my offspring... but that probably isn't going to be for about a decade. So... if you can count looking forward to flying with my progeny, then yes, I'm terribly excited.

On the other hand, the little guy (or gal) is probably going to cut into my flying budget in the short term. And I'm probably not going to be sleeping straight through until my requisite 5:00 AM wake-up time. And crying has never really been attractive to me. And diaper changing... well, let's just say that there are a few things that I'm trepidatious about.

So, am I excited? Yes. I'm excited. Of course I'm excited (to be read as Austin Powers says "Mole? What mole? I don't see any mole.")!