The Baby-Making Track

I use to laugh at my girlfriends and family when they would say "you just wake up one morning and you know you are ready."  Sure as shit, they were right!  I have always wanted a family but never knew when and if I would ever be ready.  In 2009 when the hubby and I got back from our honeymoon it was like a firing range of questions.  "When are you going to start trying, Do you want a boy or a girl, How many kids do you want, How are you going to raise the kid (religion), Are you going to stay at home???"  Ahh with the questions!! As soon as I would sense a conversation starting this way, I would laugh and say "not for a long time" and then turn it around on them and start asking any invasive question about their life I could think of. Payback! 

Why do people these days assume as soon as you say "I Do" that you are on the baby-making track? It's great if you are and more power to those people, but that just wasn't us.  I have (and want to continue) in my career and we are just setting roots.  I want to travel and explore and go have drunken nights with friends and not have to worry about a babysitter.

Then one sunny Saturday morning I woke up, snuggled as tight as could be with my hubby, looked at him and had this overwhelming feeling... I wanted a baby.  I didn't express this right away, but from that point on I did the girly awing over any baby I saw, the tiniest little outfits and the way their whole entire hand barely wrapped around my pinkie finger.  What an amazing blessing.  Then while visiting a friend that just had a baby, I was sitting on the couch feeding the handsome little guy, when I looked up at my hubby, made eye contact and we both smiled while I mouthed to him "I Want One".