I’ll never forget the first time I saw two pink lines on a pregnancy test. It was June 18, 2003. I was 25 years old and had been married a little over three years. Bobby and I had been trying to get pregnant for about three months, and I wasn’t too stressed out about it yet, but I was getting a little nervous. After all, you never know how that’s all going to go until you try.
My period was only one day late, but I was never late, so I went ahead and bought a test. I had read that you need to test with your first pee of the day, so I got up that morning and rushed into the bathroom. I had to hurry to get the thing unwrapped because I really had to go! I barely had time to read the instructions and hoped I was “doing it rightâ€. After I’d done the deed, (mmm… double entendre anyone?) I laid the test flat on the top of the toilet and tried not to look at it. But, as I was brushing my teeth about 30 seconds later, I accidentally looked. Seriously, it was an accident. I swear! What I saw made me gasp and swallow a great deal more toothpaste than is appropriate. There on the pee-pee test were two pink lines, announcing with their rosy duplicity that I was somebody’s mother.
I picked up the test and stared at it to make sure I wasn’t hallucinating, finished brushing my teeth (little did I know how soon I wouldn’t be able to brush them without puking!), and jumped around the bathroom in excitement. My husband was already at work so I had to wait alllllllllll daaaaaaaaaaaay before I got to tell him (I had to do it in person of course!) He said those three little words that all men say upon hearing such an announcement – say it with me ladies – “Are you sure?†When I confirmed that yes I was sure, he broke out in the world’s biggest smile. The same smile he gives his son when he arrives home from work every day. That boy’s made us smile a million times since that moment, and I expect we’ll never stop smiling about him.
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