Thank you for making this point, as it was my first thought! My now-husband and I lived in Europe in our 20‘s, working, going to school, traveling and just having a general blast. When we finally moved back to the US, one of our first observations was how SHITTY American kids are. They are loud, obnoxious, selfish, and impolite! Kids (also dogs) in Europe are so much more…desirable!
We had a surprise pregnancy and decided to go with it. Did we miss exercising? Yup. Did we miss spontaneous sex? Yup. But if it’s important to you, you figure out how to make it work. And if you can’t? Everything is a phase with kids, so you’ll figure it out eventually. It’s all temporary.
And who says you have to go to Disney world and buy a bunch of kid shit? You can choose to have a minimal amount of “kid shit” (we did). You can choose to go volunteer with archaeologists in North Dakota and dig up dino bones instead of launching $4000 into Disney World (we did). You can’t always choose to get more sleep… But then that will resolve itself after a few years :-)
Thanks for letting me crash your point, Sam!
