We get this question a lot. It’s just funny that people urge us to do a really big and life changing thing so they can see how cute a baby would look. I’m sure they don’t mean it exactly like that, but that’s how it often comes out. So sometimes I troll them…

Actually we are just as curious as others to what our children will look like. We talk about it a lot. It’s just we are not in a financial position to have a baby yet. We haven’t been married for long either and we want to have time to ourselves before we bring a kid into the world. There are also other considerations like my husband’s parents. We’d like them to be close by when we have kids and it takes a while to organise for them to move to Australia.

There is that pressure though, a lot of Korean friends assume because we are married we’ll have a baby right away. One of my husband’s friends asked at our wedding reception when we will have a baby! Geez, let us have a wedding night first! It does seem to be more common in Korean culture to have a baby right away, but we’ve decided to wait for a few years because our circumstances are different to most other married couples.

We live in an area where most of the children seem to be half Asian anyway, so we can get a pretty good idea of what our children might look like. So many cute kids everywhere! Sometimes it’s hard to stick to our plan of waiting.