So I was just looking through some internet stuff this evening and randomly got stuck in to a weird loop on blogger – I kept clicking the next blog button. I must say it’s a great way to watch everyone else’s lives flash before your eyes , it can be quite intriguing if not sometimes weird what you find. Anyway, I digress – during my cyber travels tonight it quickly became apparent as I flicked idilly through each blog, that there was a ALOT of babies, families and babies, toddlers, families and babies – I don’t mean just one or two in every now and then, but a constant stream of toddlers, family photos, DIY triumphs and first steps achievement blogs.

Now given recent events in my life, it’s fair to say that either google knows (paranoia) or I could be switching on to something thats always been there (like when someone mentions a car you haven’t seen for ages and then you see hundreds of them) but it seems to me that the generation who first signed up for a yahoo account at college, moved on to blogging and eventually surrendered there entire brain space to Facebook has suddenly got all grown up and had kids!

Clicking through the hordes of blogs that detail every waking moment of their families lives would have, up until recently filled me with panic, and most probably the more cynical response “what’s the big deal about YOUR baby!” but something intangible happens when you become a parent. Suddenly those screaming crying things that you always intended to “have”,  but “oh not for another couple of years we’ve got things we want to do”, become the most important and precious things in your life, you find you and your partner having serious debates about the fact that your baby is sooo much better looking than all the other babies! Conversations generally become rundowns of the sleep you didn’t have, and you become intoxicated by the smell of your babies head!!

Moreover life somehow, becomes a little richer – like the colour has been turned up a notch. So not only can I add the categories “Ethan” and “Parenting” to my blog but also a big horay to babies, families and first steps I now understand what all the fuss is about!

Welcome to the world Mr Ethan Marley Green!