Sunday 23rd February

Be Careful There’s a Baby in The House

The big news in our house, and has been the biggest news in our house since the news broke last year, is that we two will soon be three. In July things will be different. Not a guest, not a visitor, but a new member of the family. In fact his/her arrival is really the start of the family. Before we were just a couple. We signed a piece of paper and thanks to the law of Japan we became a single recognized entity. But when the baby arrives we become a family for real. Everything changes then. One part of my life ends and new one begins, and of course I view that with mixed feeling. Change is always a bit stressful, scary, depending on the level of change, and this one comes in pretty near the top. So I’m trying to consciously live and enjoy these last few months of my pre-children life, because this end-of-an-era stuff. A lot of the time though it’s hard to imagine that it’s actually going to happen. It’s just a bump, just a little acorn in her belly.