Family Matters
I’d made up my mind to broach the subject of children with Marissa tonight when I got home from work, so you can, I’m sure, imagine my surprise when she brought the subject up herself! It seems she wasn’t feeling very well at work this morning, so she came home. Over dinner, she asked me how I felt about little ones, and I tried hard to answer as cautiously as I could. Mostly because I was worried that she was going to tell me that children were out of the question, and I should forget that idea.
But that wasn’t it. It seems she’s been feeling rather ill in the mornings for a little while now, and she thinks she may be with child! (Hello, Ed Jr! Ryan’s manner is not deliberate on my part, he just strolled into my head that way!)
She picked up a test at the drugstore the other day, and tells me now that she’s just trying to work up the courage to use it. Also, my dear one has told me not to say anything to anyone, just in case its just that pesky stomach flu that’s doing the rounds at the moment. I know, however, that by this time tomorrow I will have sworn everyone I know to secrecy, Mother and Father included!
I know I won’t sleep tonight, I’ll be thinking up baby names, and wondering what color we’ll paint the spare bedroom!
Mother, as you may have guessed, is already over the moon, and Father told me that she’s already knitted three pairs of booties, wven though I’ve told them that Marissa may not be pregnant after all.
I might as well have been talking to a brick wall. Still, Mother has promised not to send the booties on until we know for sure. I don’t know what she’ll do, or what I’ll do, if it turns out to be the stomach flu after all. In fact, that doesn’t bear thinking about, really.
I wonder if…
No, I’m not going to think of anything else baby-related until we know for sure. I think I can manage that without too much trouble!
Ah, who am I kidding? I won’t last five minutes! I know I won’t! And, it would really be just my luck that I’ve jumped the gun on this.
I think ‘Abram’ if it’s a boy, or ‘Alkanet’ if it’s a girl! I wonder if Marissa will like these names as much as I do?
(The names may seem a little weird, but they’re from the ‘Redwall’ books, instead of nice normal names.)
