Neil and I were thinking about moving to either St. Louis or Chicago when he graduates, which is May 2010, and living for several years or so before we’re ready to settle down and start a family. Key word: were.
I must have left out the part where we would start a family AFTER we moved back from wherever we moved to because when I mentioned it again Neil was completely against moving. Between having a baby and moving Neil wants to have a baby. Like now. Is that weird for the man to want a baby before the woman? Don’t get me wrong- there’s nothing I want more right now than to find out I’m preggers. I just don’t want to have a baby without being close to my mom our family my mom. It’s not that I don’t think I can do it without her, it’s more that I don’t want to have to do it without her. And I know she will want to help.
Since it looks like we’ve made the decision not to move (in the recent future anyway) Neil would like to start trying sometime at the end of the summer. That way our baby will be born at the beginning of the following summer and he will have just graduated. Sounds perfect right? Well, going back to wanting to be close to our family when we have a baby, I think we should wait until we KNOW we’re going to be close to home. It’s not going to be easy for Neil to find a job because schools only need at most two P.E teachers so what if we have to move away because of his job? I’m okay with that but only if I’m not preggers. Makes sense not to start trying for a baby until Neil gets a job offer, right? But that’s over a year away. It’s things like this that make me wish Neil had a different major.
