Get ready for your life to change...

I can remember hearing this phrase countless times once Sara and I found out we were pregnant; "Get ready for your life to change!"  It was always such a general statement and everyone always said it almost in passing, like a "How are you?"..."Good, and you?"  Like the basic response to "We're pregnant" is "Get ready for your life to change."  It seems like such an empty response, no real substance or information.  Now, four months in, our lives have changed a ton, so please don't read this next part and think that I believe my life hasn't changed at all, because it has changed in an amazing way...


I heard this statement again and in my head my response was "Duh"...but then I realized there was a tone in that voice that grabbed me, something that I had noticed before, but didn't connect it until then.  It was the sound of regret.  It's almost as if children became some sort of unwanted burden.  "If it wasn't for my kids, I could have done all of this other stuff..." became what I heard from people when I would hear this phrase again over the course of the next few months before Keagan was born.  There has certainly been change, but I guess I knew that going into it; that was the point.  While it was fun to go out on Saturday night, or whatever, staying at home with Keagan just always sounded better.  I guess my mindset was that while I'm giving up all of this stuff to have a son, what I was getting in return was going to be/is so much better than what I had before...I'm not really sure why you would want to choose the other life.    


I think there are definite seasons in your life, and they all deal with drastic change: graduating from college...getting married...and having kids.  Obviously there are more but I think those three are pretty big.  How well we deal with change has a big impact on our life in a lot of different ways.  What change are you prepared/unprepared for?  Or better yet, what choices are you making that are going to cause change? Are you ready for that change and do you really want that change?

Seriously?

I think I will try to make this a regular "segment" on here as there are a lot of things I see happen around me that make me just go, "Are you freaking kidding me?"  But I think "Seriously?" is a little better and shorter for a title.


Appropriate work-out attire...
Definitely saw a guy running in only spandex tonight while I was on my run.  I realize that might be normal for bikers and football players, but they are also wearing pads, helmets, other equipment and riding a bike.  Also, biking shorts and football pants are all longer than what this guy was wearing.  This guy was neither a football player or a biker if you know what I mean...Now, I know it's 100 degrees outside, and I'm all for trying to deal with the heat as best as you can, but if you're going to be in public at least look in the mirror before you leave and ask yourself, "Should I really be wearing this?"  or "just this" in this specific case.  Now I realize I'm not much to look at when I go running, but I figure I'm not making people cringe as they run by me.  I should have waited till it got darker for my run tonight...


It's just not necessary...
So there are lots of things that we own that we don't really NEED.  I myself have a fair share of unnecessary items in our apartment that we could live without.  However, some times they go too far when they try and sell us something we just don't need.  I am of course talking about the toilet paper commercial whose selling point is, "buy our TP and we will give you a free spare-roll holder!"  What?...a WHAT holder?  Now, my first thought was that this holder actually attached to the dispenser and you now could have a nice decorated/covered roll of toilet paper.  OK...so, I don't go for the cute everything in the bathroom has to match and I even buy the little box that goes over my kleenex so that can match too; I think it's a little over the top, but at least it's consistent; everything matches.  But I was wrong!  All this does is hold the roll of TP!  Why would you need something like that?  I thought everyone just put their extra rolls of TP underneath the sink; but apparently that's the non-normal thing to do.  Besides that, the "holder" was all decorated like it should be out on display; no toilet paper is worth that much and there is too much stuff in peoples bathrooms these days anyway.  We have gone through a lot of Ovaltine in our marriage and I have never once thought, "man, this can would fit a roll of TP perfectly!  Then I could just set it out for everyone to see!"...ridiculous.  If you have to go to the bathroom and you run out of TP and can't reach underneath the sink, it's your own fault, you should just live with the consequences...


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