Posted by Mark
These past few days have been amazing and it all started with two little stripes.
On Sunday, October 30, 2005 at 5:46 PM Tina walked out of the bathroom laughing and smiling while she held in her hand the home pregnancy test kit we bought the night before. At that moment, I didn’t know what it all meant exactly until I saw them: two tiny little stripes named C and T. There they were standing beside each other, happily announcing the miracle that’s happening in my Tina’s womb.
We just sat on my bed hugging while we stared at them. Laughing. Excited. Amazed. Scared. Hugging. Happy. It was a mix of everything that added up to something so overwhelming. We hugged and laughed some more for what seemed like forever. We just couldn’t believe that we were finally pregnant. We’ve heard about this happening to other couples before and it seemed so ordinary then. But now that it’s happening to us, we were just so astonished and speechless. We’re going to be parents!
That reminded us of our own parents. Somewhere down the line, they will have to know and they will be disappointed at first. We decided that it wasn’t going to be a problem: we were both of legal marrying age (I’m turning 28, she’s 26) and had jobs. Besides, we both already decided on our own to get married long before this came along. Nothing has changed except for the schedule and, of course, the presence of a fetus in her tummy.
We decided to tell my parents first the next day. I thought that it was fortunate that my niece, their first and favorite granddaughter, has moved with her mom to Manila. I found it fortunate because now my parents miss her and are most likely longing for another grandchild to brighten their lives. In retrospect, I think I was a bit too optimistic.
(Watch out for part 2 where I tell my parents about the good news)
On Sunday, October 30, 2005 at 5:46 PM Tina walked out of the bathroom laughing and smiling while she held in her hand the home pregnancy test kit we bought the night before. At that moment, I didn’t know what it all meant exactly until I saw them: two tiny little stripes named C and T. There they were standing beside each other, happily announcing the miracle that’s happening in my Tina’s womb.
We just sat on my bed hugging while we stared at them. Laughing. Excited. Amazed. Scared. Hugging. Happy. It was a mix of everything that added up to something so overwhelming. We hugged and laughed some more for what seemed like forever. We just couldn’t believe that we were finally pregnant. We’ve heard about this happening to other couples before and it seemed so ordinary then. But now that it’s happening to us, we were just so astonished and speechless. We’re going to be parents!
That reminded us of our own parents. Somewhere down the line, they will have to know and they will be disappointed at first. We decided that it wasn’t going to be a problem: we were both of legal marrying age (I’m turning 28, she’s 26) and had jobs. Besides, we both already decided on our own to get married long before this came along. Nothing has changed except for the schedule and, of course, the presence of a fetus in her tummy.
We decided to tell my parents first the next day. I thought that it was fortunate that my niece, their first and favorite granddaughter, has moved with her mom to Manila. I found it fortunate because now my parents miss her and are most likely longing for another grandchild to brighten their lives. In retrospect, I think I was a bit too optimistic.
(Watch out for part 2 where I tell my parents about the good news)
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