Another one that we hear all the time is "get your sleep now..". We have talked about how for the most part people want to tell you about negatives. We really appreciate those few people who started the conversation by saying "You are going to love it."
As for the the changes, we have already started to experience them. In order to get ready for baby Z we have taken on a couple projects around the house. One of them obviously was getting the baby room ready. The second one was knocking down our old garage and building a new one. This basically took up my whole summer (and maybe fall, it still is not completed).
(this isn't the most current picture of the garage, I do have most of the siding on)
These projects were our summer baby. We went to almost no concerts, very few happy hours or nice dinners out, I only golfed once and Mary stopped playing Taiko. But the biggest thing it cut into affected more than just Mary and me. For the first time in 5 years we didn't have Chili Fest. It was like a family member had died when we told some people. We had multiple offers from people to host it temporarily, but it just wasn't going to work out. Have no fear, Chili Fest will be back next year. And if you see us before we have the baby, just tell us everything will be great.
