Timothy and Janie McAuliffe with their son, Louis, at the New Hanover County Arboretum. What advice do you wish you had received? “Travel as much as possible before you have kids. The time you have to explore the world, just the two of you, is very limited,” Janie says. Janie and Timothy enjoyed a few adventures before becoming parents, including a baby moon in Curacao and a surfing and diving expedition in Puerto Rico. They might not be snorkeling off the coast of a Caribbean island any time soon, but each day is a different kind of adventure for the new parents. “It’s a little, tiny, crawling world of fun,” Janie says. What has been an unexpected reward of marriage? “Watching him mold Louis into a really awesome kid is far beyond my wildest dreams,” Janie says of Timothy’s role as stay-at-home dad. Although the couple is preparing to switch duties while Timothy reenters the classroom, Timothy says he is grate-ful for all the time he got to spend with his son. “Lying in the grass in our backyard, rolling around with my son and watching him take his first steps were some of my favorite moments,” he says. Where do you see yourselves in another seven years? “Hopefully we’ll be spending every weekend with our feet in the sand. We’re a major surfing family, so I see us out in the water, getting sunburns,” Timothy says. 29 ALLISON POTTER www.wrightsvillebeachmagazine.com WBM
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