Kids.

Yeah, so now we're married so we get the "kids" question a lot. Too bad we really don't have an answer yet. Hell, we don't even know what we're going to eat for dinner most nights (or most other things). But I've been thinking about a few things lately so as I work through them, I'll be posting them. I'm a "knowledge is power" person so whenever I debate anything I read about it, talk about it, think about it and generally get as much information as I can about it. So the kids thing scared the death out of me. The first step for me to getting over that is to get information on it. So that's the current quest - get myself less scared. So today, the two things that scare me about deciding when to have kids:
1. Having them too old. I don't want to be the "old parents." The ones the other parents can't relate to. The ones that don't have the energy to keep up with their kids. I don't want my kids to feel like "Wow! My parents were born in the 70s!!" when all their friends have parents born in the 80s, or worse yet, the 90s. I want to be able to talk to them and have them not look at me like I'm from a completely different planet. I want to be able to relate somewhat. I just don't want to be "too old."
2. Having them too young. Yes, in a way I still think we could have kids "too young" even though our days of being able to say that are running shorter and shorter. I don't want to look at my kids and think of all the things we didn't do because we have them, or think of all we're missing out. Yeah, you'll miss out on things no matter what age you have them at, but I want to be old enough to feel comfortable with that sacrifice. I think about where we would be if we had kids three years ago and all the cool stuff we would have missed out on. And it makes me sad we would have missed all that. And I don't want to rush into anything and then be sad that we're missing things.
Yeah, Catch 22 at its best.