Life Gets in the Way

It's been a really long time since I've updated this blog. I know each time I write an entry, I think that I'll start to make it a habit to keep posting regularly, but life always seems to get in the way. Over the past couple of years, Jeff and I have been pretty busy just being newlyweds and settling into our home together. Since the last post, we have successfully painted our condo, installed lighting, redid both the master and the guest room closets, and also recently refinanced our home. While in retrospect, each project seems to be pretty mundane, we spent a fair amount of time with each one. Whether it was picking and testing paint colors, measuring and designing closet layouts, or going through the mountain of paperwork for the refi, while we were in the thick of it, it seemed like that particular project would be endless. But, the constant theme was that we were always in it together, and so we enjoyed keeping ourselves busy.

We've also had lots of great times with our faithful pup, Friday. She has been our constant companion for summer trips to the cottage, weekend walks around Hoboken, and she's always a friendly face ready to jump and lick us as soon as we walk through the front door. All in all, we've definitely been blessed with a happy life together as a little family.

A couple of years ago, as most married couples do, we started to get the itch to start a family. It wasn't that we felt like everyone else was doing it, because only a couple of our friends had started having kids. Jeff and I always wanted to start having kids after a year or two of marriage because we wanted to have a large family. We naively thought that it would be as simple as deciding to have kids, and then it would be so! Clearly, we were way off.

We soon found that having kids isn't as easy as it sounds. And, that even when you feel like you might just have it all together, sometimes the world has other plans for you.