August 2009

The idea had been knocking around for a while - after all, we had taken our big trip to Ireland in May with the thought that we'd better take the opportunity to do so before we had a baby consuming all our time and money. But what cinched it was having been in our big, new house for a couple months. Our thoughts turned more seriously toward filling it with a baby or two - it's just designed for a child to tear through it in a big loop, something which Tom liked to demonstrate by making me chase him around in circles :) I was suddenly enamored with the vision of a little one wreaking havoc on the place and trying to ride his or her tricycle in laps through all the adjoining rooms. So I got the ok from the doctor, started taking those prenatal vitamins, and said good-bye to birth control pills.