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?