Well, there it is: my wife is just over 13 weeks pregnant. I’ve been wanting to shout it out to everyone I see all day, everyday! “Pregnant,” I want to shout. “With a baby!” “I’m going to be a dad!”

“I’m going to be a dad!”

It’s hard to express the happiness this news brings to one’s life. It’s a blessing from God. We received this great news less than a month after our wedding. Already looking back on it I am so glad we were open to pregnancy right away. I wouldn’t have it any other way. The perfect time for this baby isn’t next year. The perfect time for this baby isn’t when we are “set” in our career or “secure” money-wise. No. The perfect time for this baby is now.

It’s amazing how this news puts life into perspective. Priorities formerly in flux have settled down and are now set in stone. This is our family This is us versus the world. I cannot wait to meet this baby. I cannot wait to see it grow up.

My little brother had a good story: for years, he told us, he’s seen friends and acquaintances announce that they would be uncles or aunts on social media, and he’s scrolled right passed without a second thought. “No big deal,” he thought. Now that he’s an uncle-to-be? The world stops turning.

And for me and my wife, the world stopped turning and has been swallowed up by a black hole. How is everyone outside our family so normal about such an amazing miracle of life? Every idle thought we have is about the baby–happiness, fear, thankfulness, excitement–and yet, for example, one of my bosses cared for ten seconds after I told him before walking out the door and (I’m sure) forgetting about it.

I will post more about the pregnancy, but for now (and the last ten weeks) I just can’t stop smiling.