Baby Brain

I've had baby brain for years, and I mean YEARS.

I've known that I've wanted to be a mom since I was a young child. It's the only thing that I've ever consistently wanted to do. I started reading baby books at 13 and fantasized about what it would be like to be a teenage mom.

Ending up falling in love with a gal at age 14 was probably the best thing that ever happened to me, or I can nearly guarantee that I would have ended up pregnant before I was 18. (Not knocking on teen moms here, I just would NOT have been a good one!)

Once my love and I moved into our first place together when I was 18, the baby bug REALLY started biting hard! Alas, I was a freshman in college and leaning on Mommy and Daddy for a great deal of financial support.

As each year progressed it got worse. And worse. AND WORSE.

Well, now, financially independent and with a steady job, this bug isn't just biting me, it has infested our entire house! A and I have the bug something fierce, and it is the topic of nearly every conversation.

We have names picked out.
We know where and how we want to give birth.
We've picked the sperm bank.
We have talked about parenting styles.
We've designed the nursery.
We have planned to home school, and even started looking at curriculum.
AND SO MUCH MORE.

Our most recent decision involves our decisions on which cloth diapers we want to use. We have gone so far as to budget newborn cloth diapers into our budget, and started buying one or two a month in preparation for baby.

One rainy day we drove to babies r us just to geek out on baby stuff that we agree we don't need (and some that we do!)

The kicker here is that we are still over a year away from even trying to conceive. (Sixteen months if you'd really like to know!) Granted, this time line is COMPLETELY dependent upon A getting into grad school this summer. We hope to start trying a few months before A graduates from grad school, which would be in May of 2015.

If A DOESN'T get into grad school, she'll work for a year and reapply after that. It would just be a year to save up money and get our stuff together, just a bit more.

So this is where my brain is at these days.
More baby babble to follow.

~H