mdrisk2006
Shared on Mon, 02/19/2007 - 20:37I realized the other day that my life as I know it is over.....not in a bad thing at all mind you just recent changes that I never saw happening to me. This past week my wife and I purchased a mini-van, we have one daughter and are expecting another in a couple of months. This got me thinking how did I get here.
I was never a person that saw having children as a necessary step to having a full and complete life. I could have been happy just being married and living out my life with my wife. Now I am on the other side of that and I can honestly say that I could never go back. My daughter has changed me in ways I did not think were ever possible. Today she is 19 months old and in a couple of months we will have our second (also a girl). I never would have imagined that I would be 31 with two kids under the age of two (albeit only for a few months). My wife is the one that wanted kids, I am so truly grateful that she convinced me and that is a gift in which I will never be able to repay.
I wasn't ready to be a parent, but then almost overnight...I was. People say that having kids is a life changing experience and now I can honestly agree. This is one of the things I love about this site and the members in my clan. Most of us are people who while we enjoy playing games and chatting with each other, games are not the most important things in our lives. Every once in a while someone posts a blog or a forum thread explaining either a tragedy or an illness or in some cases a divorce. I then get to see members of this site post entries of support and words of encouragement, (some of which are posted by the guy that just started the Fart Joke Thread 10 minutes before).
This has been my first blog entry....I'm not sure if I will ever do another one....but I wanted to take a few minutes to share this realization with you. I read several blog entries a day and I just wanted to give one back so to speak for everyone to read.
I was never a person that saw having children as a necessary step to having a full and complete life. I could have been happy just being married and living out my life with my wife. Now I am on the other side of that and I can honestly say that I could never go back. My daughter has changed me in ways I did not think were ever possible. Today she is 19 months old and in a couple of months we will have our second (also a girl). I never would have imagined that I would be 31 with two kids under the age of two (albeit only for a few months). My wife is the one that wanted kids, I am so truly grateful that she convinced me and that is a gift in which I will never be able to repay.
I wasn't ready to be a parent, but then almost overnight...I was. People say that having kids is a life changing experience and now I can honestly agree. This is one of the things I love about this site and the members in my clan. Most of us are people who while we enjoy playing games and chatting with each other, games are not the most important things in our lives. Every once in a while someone posts a blog or a forum thread explaining either a tragedy or an illness or in some cases a divorce. I then get to see members of this site post entries of support and words of encouragement, (some of which are posted by the guy that just started the Fart Joke Thread 10 minutes before).
This has been my first blog entry....I'm not sure if I will ever do another one....but I wanted to take a few minutes to share this realization with you. I read several blog entries a day and I just wanted to give one back so to speak for everyone to read.
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