What’s this all about?

I never really understood the drive for people to write a journal blog. I have been keeping a journal for over 14 years, starting with nice notebook gifted to me by a friend. To me a journal contains private thoughts and inner secrets never to be told to anyone. An internal dissertation authored my me, presented by myself and as I am the audience.

Recently though my life has been jolted into another plane of awareness. A plastic strip with two purple lines made me shout out loud and suddenly re-asses my life. My wife is pregnant and I am going to be a father. Now don’t get me wrong, this is good news. Catrina and I have been trying to have a baby for nearly three years now. But forget what other people may say about news of being a father, you are never ever ready. Most of men do what I did, fake calm untill you get a chance to think about it.

So what is this blog all about? Well, this is my way to make sense of what is happening to my life. This is a blog about me! Narcissistic as that may seem, this is afterall a journal and a journal is about the person who is writing it. But basically this is about me and my own personal journey into fatherhood. Being a husband to an expecting wife. Working as an employee and planning the future of my family. This is about the next nine months from the prospective of someone who is not carrying a baby but someone who is trying to understand his role as a bystander for nine months.

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