I am not sure who was more shocked. Although I had suspected it was true, we both shrugged and laughed off the suspicions and turned to making jokes and talking about the ‘What if’s’! It had been just over two weeks since we had come to the realization that our plans for the future were about to be drastically altered. Its now been 5 weeks since we found out, huddled at the couch wondering why the first one was not changing color or showing one of those signs. You know the ones that say + or -! Who invented those damn things anyways?
As the seconds turned to minutes, I remember looking at her and laughing to myself. I grabbed the thing and through the thing out. “Go pee again Honey” I said as we opened another one. The things look like a popsicles in that plastic wrap by the way, no sooner had she gone in did she come out with 1 very legible + sign in the window. To add to the frustration of having to even use the damn thing I looked in the trash to see what the first one said, Dang it. It was a giant and very legible + sign that happened to be late in appearing. The whole ‘Late’ thing was becoming too frequent.
You see there are 3 of those tests in a box and I guess 2 out of 3 that show a + sign is Mr. EPT’s way of saying “Hey you, yeah you, the middle age couple standing in the living room looking at me. Can’t you read the big Plus sign you morons? How in the world did you two get knocked up at your age?” As he stares at us with a + sign on his head.
Now we all know how it happened, it was something in the water at our favorite hangout so there is no need to go into detail. But we both looked at each other in what can only be described as pure shock and disbelief. We had spent months talking about waiting until next year to get married and the reasons why, we both agreed that it was a very well thought out, grown up, adult decision. I mean, the past several years I have just gotten to the point where I can sit on the Toilet seat and guess what, “its dry!”
I have spent a lot of time just dating, and for once as I look back dating the same girl for a year and half I have realized it took a lot of dating and self searching to find the one that was right for me. Never in a million years, as I look back to the night at a reunion, did I think I would I be still with her. However, while I knew as time passed that there would be a point that we would be getting married. However, having another little one never crossed my mind. By the way the Doctor at Kaiser, says the expensive and very politically correct commercials about the effectiveness of birth control is just that, it’s a commercial, its crap. The reality is that it is about 75 percent effective and they are just there to sell you a pill…… Go figure!
They say Life is never certain, plans change, and sometimes throws you curves. I guess all I can say to that is this. We have not planned for this curve in the road and never saw it in the parenting map and honestly we have no idea where this road leads. But so far we love the road trip that we are on together and look forward to many more curves ahead to share with our boys and our new son. Regardless where it turns, intersects, or ends we have always planned on doing the journey together. We both realize that just before the curves that there may be speed bumps and all sorts of hazards, problems, and rewards but our commitment to do it together is what makes the journey a wonderful thing that neither one of us has experienced before.
© All Rights Reserved 2010
Leave a Comment
No comments yet.
Comments RSS TrackBack Identifier URI
