Our Family is Growing

Expectations make it hard to enjoy the moment.

I sit here pregnant with my second child and for the entire pregnancy, I struggled with whether my husband and I should announce our pregnancy or not. We have chosen to keep our lives very private and wish to continue to do so but we have realized that we get to decide what privacy looks like for us.

Some of my happiest times in life were in 2020, when I could create content and share bits and pieces of my life, and the best part was no one had any expectations of me from doing that. No one was asking me for my photos or videos so that they could make my workout journey about them. And yes, I have plenty of other things in life that make me happy now, but creating content was fun for me and it really felt like a hobby.

Back to expectations and announcing a pregnancy, it is very strange to me that when you choose to have a kid, people begin expecting things of you and your spouse. For me, these expectations made it very hard for me to enjoy my pregnancy in the way I think I should have. Being pregnant is an incredibly personal experience, and there is something so amazing about enjoying it with just your spouse and the people you feel most comfortable with. But I didn’t enjoy that I couldn’t be outwardly excited about something because of my own fears.

Now as I share this pregnancy, I recognize that I am now subject to opinions or bad advice that I don’t necessarily want, but it’s a part of what comes with the good.

The good is that I get to document memories to one day share with my new little one and I get to share them with a giant network of people all over the world to connect to.

If you made it this far, thank you for coming on this journey with me to find a way to share my life without allowing the expectations of others to weigh on me. We will continue to share our lives when we want and how we want, but I am happy to share today that our family is growing.