About Me

We are The Physicist and BookGirl. We eat, sleep, work and play in Boston. After five years of living under the CITGO sign in marital bliss, we decided that a kid might be a nice addition to our family unit. This was a shocking revelation for both of us, seeing as how we'd agreed to marry based on the stipulation that neither of us wanted children.

But here we are, wildly racing down that path. Embracing reckless abandon, we've cast out those hormone-containing birth control choices that allowed us to "get caught up in the heat of the moment" and not worry about what would happen nine months later. Now, with "nine months later" fast approaching, our BookGirl is religiously taking folic acid, doing her best to eat well, and losing the ability to see her own feet. The little bug has taken root, and seems well on his way to consuming what is left of our lives. The Physicist, meanwhile, is freaking out about paying for what will most certainly be an Ivy league education and scaring himself witless with pictures from a manual on Bradley natural childbirth.

We're excited. Damn excited, in fact, and we wanted to document it somehow. There are a lot of excellent mom-blogs and dad-blogs out there that we very much enjoy reading, but we haven't yet come across a blog containing both (future) parents' perspectives, nor really a blog that starts pre-conception. So we thought we'd give it a shot. Even if no one else reads this, what a laugh we will have in five or ten years when we go back and relive this experience. Though it might not be so amusing when the kid finds our blog...

We plan to be as forthcoming about our thoughts and feelings as possible, maybe even occasionally stepping over the line. Also, we don't intend for all of our entries to be about baby planning. There is a lot of stuff happening in the world, so even if it isn't directly related to our baby-to-be, it will certainly affect his/her life. And we do have opinions about these things after all, so why not share them with the world. We realize there are many different perspectives related to parenting and children, and that people can be pretty sensitive about those issues. While we certainly respect the right of others to disagree with what we say, this is first and foremost our blog so we reserve the right to unabashedly state our opinions.