Being a soon-to-be Dad

1.  Many sentences spoken to you will start as followed:

• "You just wait until..."
• "Your life will change..."
• "You have no idea...."

 First off, WHAT?!?  My life is going to change?!?  Taking care of a baby human being is going to be vastly different than my current lifestyle?  REALLY!?!  Ok.  Time to tone down the sarcasm.

My wife and I have talked about having kids for quite some time.  During that process, I realized that my life would change. You would be stupid not to.  I knew that many of my hobbies would have to be compromised.  Although, I don't see what would be wrong if my child laid in my lap in the early hours of the morning while I play some video games.  Or I could just put on the baby bjorn and my son and I could watch old episodes of LOST.  Hell, I remember seeing the extremely violent and brutal APOCALYPTO with a few friends in the theatres. A few minutes before the movie started, a family walked in and sat in the front row.  This was several weeks after the release so most of the theatre was empty.  This family had a small child in stroller.  I am talking less than a year old.  And they just let that damn baby cry and cry during that movie.

Also, how many times can people tell me about the lack of sleep I will or will not get?  If I accumulated all the stuff that people tell me (about the wonders and duties of being a parent).....one wonders.....why in the hell should I have a kid?  Most parents just go on and on about the bad, then ends the conversation with a "but it's worth it."  The funny thing is, no one seems flesh out that part of their speech.  Like it is brainwashed into their psyche and don't really know why it's worth it.  Just funny...

Anyway, I am truly looking forward to being a father at the end of NEXT MONTH.  It's hard to believe it is so close now.  It won't be easy.... I have no idea....You just wait until...  Yeah, yeah, yeah.  I'm ready.