us to realize it wasn’t that easy. The first morning after our son was born, my wife and I found ourselves begging my parents to watch our son while we slept for a few hours. They agreed, and when we got to our bedroom, we sat on the bed, looked into each other’s eyes, and began to cry. We knew vaguely what we signed up for and the journey we just began, but we were overrun with emotion because in that moment, the end goal of parenting was not clear to us. Sure, we knew the intended outcome we wanted