The Big Announcement

In the movies when a woman tells her husband that she's pregnant, she finds some really clever way to deliver the news over a romantic dinner. In real life, your wife just blurts it out while you're standing in the parking lot of Carmax. Or at least that's how it happened for me.

Here's sort of how it went down:

Melissa (my wife): "so I took a pregnancy test this morning and I'm pregnant."

Me: "Really? (long pause) Really? (another long pause) Maybe you should take a second one".

Melissa: "I already did".

Me: "OK then."

End scene.

(This is just another example of why we make a great team, we're always on the same page.)

Two thoughts immediately crossed my mind. First, "Way to go boys! Glad all the plumbing is in order."

Second, "Holy crap! How are we going to afford this?"

Here's the thing, we had just bought a car. And by "just bought", I don't mean a month ago, a week ago, even a few days ago. I mean the final paper work went through about fifteen minutes earlier. That's why we were in the Carmax parking lot.

Either way... this is the beginning of a 9-month odyssey. The good news... we had just traded in Melissa's Camaro for something with room for a car seat.

Thank goodness we upgraded. We'll need the space