What’s been on my mind lately is the concept of preparation.

Haley and I have been slowly preparing ourselves mentally, spiritually and physically for having kids. I want to note that we do realize that how we picture things to be may not necessarily the way things turn out.  It’s been an interesting journey so far and I’ve been enjoying the ride.

As a father I want to be able to provide the best for my kids.  As part of the preparation, I’ve been slowly giving up certain habits that I have had in the past.  An example of that would be buying / playing video games.  While I haven’t given this habit up completely, it’s one that has diminished over the past year.  I was really gung-ho about playing Halo and playing games online.  However it’s been a while since I’ve played Halo (and we’ll see how I do this winter) and only recently played a video game this past Sunday.

Why do I talk about video games? Well video games do two things (1) cause me to spend $ and (2) cause me to spend time. It’s important to realize that the $60.00 I used to spend on a game will be better spent on care for my kids.  And then the time playing the game itself will be better spent on interacting with my kids, being there for them etc.

Maybe this post would be better titled “priorities”.  As I go through the adoption process, I am learning about the changed priorities in life.

For me I am striving to have my priorities be God, Haley, Family (including kids), Friends then myself.

So what are your priorities?

-brian