Last December, right around the holidays, my wife and I decided that, after over a dozen years of marriage, we better get around to having a kid. We had heard many stories of how it was more difficult to conceive as one grew older, and we fully anticipated having at least 12 to 18 months before anything came of it.
In February, my wife became pregnant. Yeah, we were surprised, too.
At that time, I had been writing The Best Food Blog Ever for close to ten months. I knew right away that I wanted to remember everything about our experience as new parents, and that the best way of preserving these memories was through a website. But I also know what it’s like to not have kids, and to not have any particular interest in stories about other people’s kids, and to be subjected to them nonetheless – so I started this site.
A few helpful pointers about this blog: if you’d like to subscribe to the RSS feed, whereby each new piece of content automatically is fetched for you and displayed in a feed reader such as Google Reader, just click the big orange button to the right and follow the simple instructions. Also, I’ve started a separate Twitter account for this site, and you can reach me and follow along by following @BestParentBlog on Twitter. I’ve still got a few pipes and tubes to hook up, so I kindly ask for your patience.
Mind you, if you have been drawn to this site by its title, looking for advice on parenting, I may have to let you down. My wife and I are in the pre-boarding stages of a voyage of discovery, and there are plenty of websites out there with better parenting tips by virtue of the fact that they have more than one post. Give us some time, and we’ll have plenty of tales to tell, I’m sure.
Our daughter is due to arrive in the first week of October, but I’ve been mentally preparing myself for anything after September 15, in case of a strong tailwind. The baby shower has come and gone, the nursery is painted, and we’re in the midst of putting together the furniture.
We’re still up in the air for a name.
