Pregnancy

Several times now, when I tell someone we are pregnant, I get this look back that says, "Congratulations, sure, I mean, you seem happy, but of course, that would make you completely insane - you are aware that you are 40, right? There was a party and everything."

The thing is, though, I love kids. But it's more than that: I love raising kids and I love raising kids with my wife. We always thought there would be one or two more babies along the way, but we were always so caught up with the first two, that it never seemed like time to have another. Then we were older, and we had simply fell into a mindset of planning for life after kids, and it looked like we were going to be a family of four.

But, L and I never saw parenting as something blocking us from something we wanted to be doing more. We want to be parenting, we love being parts of the family. Anything we do is better because the Js are there with us. Not that we don't value our time alone (see: Pregnancy), but partnering, raising the boys has always felt so right.

This is not to say that we aren't busily changing plans. Those plans were always Plan C (Plan A: Win The Lottery). We are liberal people, we have always been parents by choice, and we are happy to make the choice once more.