When are you going to have babies?

Kellen and I have been married for a whopping seven months, and we cannot seem to escape the kid conversation. What is it about people that compels them to interject themselves into our business of child rearing?

I knew it would happen, but I also assumed our very young age would deter some people from going there.... nope! I guess I am just tired of having to repeat our list of reasons for not having children. I constantly must tell people "Oh, we are only 21 & 22... Kellen is still in school getting his masters, we don't have a house yet, we want to travel...." I am worried that response is about to involve explicatives, like "We are going to have kids when we BLEEPING want to!" or maybe "we will have kids when our birth control fails!"

I recently found an interesting little note, I had made a list of things I wanted to do before I had children! I made it my senior year of highschool (no telling what prompted it then)

• Be married (check)
• Go to Greece
• Have a house!
• Be out of school (check)
• Go on a cruise (check)
• Be at least 25
• Be ready and WANT children!!!

This was even before the economy was so bad that people are losing their houses! Babies are not cheap!

I really just want people in general to butt out. Kellen and I will let you know when there will be a little one running around. Until then, you will continue to get a Christmas card with me, Kellen, and Chewie on there. Maybe a plant next year, who knows?

So, please, people, leave us alone about making babies! Let us enjoy the quiet nights filled with sleep, the money we save by not spending it on diapers, the flat stomach without stretchmarks, and dinners without a highchair. Let us enjoy this time while we still have it... we have all the time in the world to have kids, and limited time to be alone!