The Naming of Blogs is a Serious Matter

I feel that we should get this out of the way now. Trevor named the blog "A Hypothetical You." The hypothetical you referenced is, of course, the baby. I did explain to him that the baby was decidedly not hypothetical, at least not to the one of us who has nausea, fatigue and a variety of aches and cramps. But, I understand his thinking. We are having a baby. The baby is an actuality, a real presence already in our lives - see aforementioned pregnancy symptoms and also the growing stack of books and magazines on pregnancy and babies that we are accumulating. Despite that, all our thinking about the baby at this point is purely speculative - hypothetical, if you will. We don't know if it's a boy or a girl, or what his/her personality will be like. We can read every book in the world, but we still face a lot of the unknown.

Every time I stop to think that this is a whole human being that we are creating here I am overwhelmed. A little person made up of bits and pieces of me and Trevor and our families, but also uniquely their own being with their own tastes, moods and character. It makes me think about the idea of what we leave behind. Whatever else we do, whatever else we may contribute, having a child will be our lasting contribution. It is the legacy that we leave.

So . . . ummm . . . no pressure or anything.