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Here’s a buddy, @vanweezy’s, take on babies: http://vanweezy.blogspot.com/2008/06/babies-babies-babies.html
That describes Sara’s and my exact sentiment about children when we first got married (we haven’t been married much longer than them, so it was for a much shorter phase).
Then we’d alternate getting baby fever, and finally one day we got it at the same time. Sara went off birth control, and about 14 months later this guy was born.
I’m glad we waited a year to even start trying. Everything about babies is stressful. It turns your life upside down. Parents live shorter lives than those who opt not to have kids. They cost money. You really start to understand what sleep deprivation means, and how it affects you. Your job becomes exponentially more important. Stability becomes a goal - no longer a bore. Their diapers stink. They spit up. They scream.
Oh, and they’re cute.
That’s what people without kids see.
It’s only by being stupid enough to actually procreate that you understand where all of that balance comes from. I’m sure the folks without kids will loathe that I’m leaving out the next paragraph, where I’d describe all the joys and counterweights to those chores listed above. But I won’t. @parents: wink.