So the Doctor and the Dad recently celebrated our ninth wedding anniversary.

In addition to giving us a legitimate reason to go out and eat excessive amounts of delicious seafood, this also spurred us to look back at everything we’ve done together over the past nine years.

Know what we realized?

As of right now, we’ve been married with kids and married without kids for almost the exact same amount of time. To help you visualize this state of affairs, we prepared this chart:

This made us start wondering, how exactly has our married life changed since having kids? So we made another chart:

And some more charts:

Oh, and these ones too:

And then we realized we were being super productive making charts, so we decided to make a chart about that:

Look at that – having kids has made us so productive that we’ve ended up with a great, big mess of charts.

Which makes sense.

After all, that’s pretty much exactly what our house looks like these days, too:

 

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