It’s exciting!
One thing that’s awesome about having a kid is that things become more exciting. I noticed this the night before my parents got here for Soren’s birthday festivities. I was so excited about seeing them and Soren seeing them and them seeing Soren I couldn’t sleep (and it was almost a nice not being able to sleep, not the usual kind from which I suffer).
The increase in your excitement level that results from having a kid is automatic. It’s not something you think about. It’s not like you go through a process where you start thinking about how you’re bummed that it’s getting dark earlier and it’s cold as hell all of a sudden and there’s snow and oh bummer winter is coming and that sucks but oh wait, I have a kid and if winter is coming that means the holiday season is coming and we’re not religious or anything but the holiday season is automatically fun when you have a kid and you’re excited about experiencing the holiday season as it relates to your child. It’s not like that at all.
You’re just excited. I’m excited about Halloween, which is kind of silly because I don’t even know what we’re doing (Soren has a costume, but it seems kind of user-y to take him trick-or-treating because I’m not really going to let him eat candy). I’m excited about snuggling with him when it’s cold out and reading I Love You, Little One for the 800th time and enjoying Thanksgiving dinner and getting him some boots and playing in the snow (he currently refers to snow as “no,” which is his favorite word now but you can tell the difference between the happy snow-no and the other no by the way he says it) and wearing mittens and the holidays and sparkly lights and watching It’s a Wonderful Life because apparently I’m a sap (he’d care about that only if it were performed by monkeys) and a new year and all the awesome things we’ll get to do together in 2012.
It’s going to be awesome.
