It is yours, but I’m going to hold it for you.

Iz discovered something that belonged to Mommy and Daddy, and wasn’t going to give it up. When I explained that it belonged to Mommy and Daddy and wasn’t for Iz, she replied” It is yours, but I’m going to hold it for you.” (can you picture us rolling on the floor with laughter?) Finally, we convinced her to place said article down. She’s only 2. Every day we are amazed at her vocabulary, sentences and actions. We look at each other during a conversation at the dinner table and I know we are thinking the same thing. “This is surreal. How did we become parents? How did we become parents of this 2 year old who can tell us what she likes, doesn’t like, what she wants to eat, wear, read?”

Before May of 2004, you couldn’t have told us that we would be parents. It just wasn’t in the mix. We lived in a darling tiny one bedroom garden apartment in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn. We were doing really fun things at our wonderful jobs. We daydreamed about traveling to Italy, maybe even moving there. No one could tell us what we was coming. No one could prepare us for PARENTING. Now, things have changed so much! We live in New England, with a big home and a yard in the country. I stay home with Iz, work on a few freelance projects and working on starting a business around sewing (which I LOVE), that will me allow the flexibility to bring Iz with me, play with Iz on playdates, take her places. Rob is working and planning for a teaching job to come his way (which it will). We are updating/renovating our 250+ year old house, make it more liveable for us, and perhaps more marketable if we decide to sell it and move. Thinking about the future, we are strongly considering joining/starting a homeschool co-op. We are both pro public school, at least we used to be, and we know that there are some really amazing public schools out there, just not near us right now.

Life is funny. Things that happen every day can change what will happen forever. Being parents has helped us embrace this and learn to enjoy every minute of it.