Not Throwin' Away [His] Shot.

All of you know my ManBoo, Jamie. You also know that he is one of the most optimistic and perpetually-happy people out there. It's glorious and is one of the many reasons that I adore that man. As his wife, the one teensy downside of this near-constant contentment is that I always feel the need to bump him up from "happy" to "deliriously happy" which can be challenging when he doesn't really want for much. So, I settle for those short little bursts of delirious happiness that come when I surprise him with his favorite candy from the co-op or give him a little back scratch.

Earlier this year, before we knew about Baby, I was given the opportunity to make Jamie deliriously happy to the umpteenth degree. Like, 1000x peanut butter cup happy. I was able to buy tickets for us to see Hamilton in New York. Mind you, these tickets weren't free -- they were pretty pricey, actually -- but before this opportunity came up we couldn't even find any tickets for cheaper than $1,000 each. Needless to say, I bought two tickets and Jamie was deliriously happy and the Hamilton soundtrack blared triumphantly from our speaker systems.

Then we found out about our little stowaway and of course we both were deliriously happy about that piece of news. 

But now about those Hamilton tickets...

Jamie is still optimistic (as usual) that we are able to make it out to New York with a 1-2 month old baby and somehow find someone to take said 1-2 month old for the evening while we hit the theater. I think that's a bunch of hooey. I have since looked into selling our tickets and found that we could actually make a nice chunk of change by selling our tickets because seats that are not as nice as ours are selling for five times more than what I paid for our awesome seats.

So if there is anyone reading this I must know...what would you do? Sell the tickets and continue the regular grind of trying to survive life with a newborn within the safe and comfortable confines of our home? Go on an adventure and bring Tiny Long to New York and go really big for our first post-baby date?

To sum up...

• Pros of Staying Home
• Save (and even make!) money which would be more wisely spent on expensive baby
• Less stressful
• More sleep for all involved parties (which I hear is the most precious commodity)
• More time to hone our parenting skills before taking the show on the road
• Don't have to inconvenience a New Yorker friend to take care of a very young baby
• Pros of Going to New York
• Jamie's dreams will come true and we'll see a great show
• Get out of the house (not sure if this will feel like a pro at this point in time)
• People say it's easier to travel with a young infant than an older child...
• We have lots of friends in NYC that we'd love to see

I'm sure there are more on either side but those are the major ones. Tell us what to do!