WHAT YOU TALKIN' 'BOUT, WILLIS?

Baby Blog

So my primary purpose in creating this blog was the baby. Jackson Christopher Willis is due September 1st (Labor Day) and we are anxiously awaiting his joining us. We actually have some stuff now and are starting to feel somewhat ready. I am very, very sick of people telling us, Your life will never be the same, You don't know what you're in for, or You've never known how much you could love someone until you have kids.

First of all, I'm sure these are all true--they're just so obvious, like telling my wife how huge she is right now. We can usually just say, Yeah, well she's pregnant, what's your excuse?

So I have vowed not to be the kind of parent that goes on and on about their kid, who tells childless friends how meaningless their lives are, or who goes nuts about parenting books with timeout techniques and mumbo-jumbo. The way I see it, we're not on Springer, we are fairly intelligent and even-keeled, so we should be way ahead of the game from what I can tell.

Of course I'm setting myself up to eat humble pie later, when I renig on most of this, but thats sort of the point. I don't want to forget the way I feel about all this now in case I forget in the drudgery and joy of parenting.