SKNYC

The best advice I have is to follow your heart (not your head).

We had our first when my wife was 36 and I was 40. We always knew we wanted kids but kept saying maybe next year.

Between diminishing happiness returns on a high income DINK lifestyle, friends and family increasingly having kids, and having some experiences during the pandemic that reminded us how short life can be and that tomorrow is not guaranteed – we got down to it.

And I can say in hindsight that the “calculus” I just outlined in the above paragraph didn’t even come close to giving proper weight to how full my heart is every time I hear her giggle.