Fri, Apr 14, 2006
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Spontaneity
Last night after a church meeting, Jon and I were hungry — so we decided to make a late-night outing to our local diner for pancakes. (I ended up getting blintzes — more protein for baby!) It seemed like the sort of spontaneous thing one should do before a baby is born, and it made me think: What other spontaneous things should we be doing?
Lots of baby books advise new parents to take a trip, or go out to the movies, or go out for a fancy dinner before the baby arrives — you won’t be able to do these things after baby comes! Jon and I have done a few of these things, but the fact is this: we are homebodies. We love to stay at home, work on various projects, read, watch movies, cook, and snuggle. So, maybe I’m naive, but I don’t really think we are going to miss our “going out on the town” lifestyle, because we don’t really have that lifestyle! And we like it that way.
Of course, we’ll make sure to hire a babysitter and go out for dinner every once in awhile once the baby arrives, but mostly I’m looking forward to our cozy, homey lifestyle — but with a baby. And with a bit less sleep than we are accustomed to.
This post was last modified April 14, 2006 at 10:05 am
Jon said,
April 14, 2006, at 10:46 am
“We were hungry”? “We wanted pancakes”? I think all our readers might be able to tell who it really was who said, “I want pancakes! Let’s go out for pancakes!” :)
Ann said,
April 14, 2006, at 7:29 pm
True, I was the pancake-craver. But you were definitely hungry! It is funny that you got french toast — neither of us actually got panckaes.