Angels

We arrived at the hospital at 9 am and were ready for the induction, as ready as two bright eyed scared and unprepared soon to be parents could be. After my sweet daughter entered the world the song from that show that comes about every 4 years that has super humans that run real fast and dive real good started playing in my head, because, my wife to me was now a super human. She brought my daughter into the world, with no drugs and only her motherly instinct and passion to do what was best for her child to deal with the pain. It was an experience that will be impressed upon my mind until the day I die. I will never forget seeing my daughter, beautiful and perfect. I became soft, instantly, I am not a soft person, I am not an emotional person. Though I would lie to your face tears were welling in my eyes. I am smiling right now because my lil sweetheart is cooing as she is feeding, anyway I was overcome, a love that I had never felt so strong for my wife and daughter filled my heart and my emotions became uncontrollable. I told everyone I knew that my baby would not make me soft, I had not counted on the amount of love for my daughter my heart was instantly overflowing with. We were all together as a family, a family of three and life became more complete despite being confined to the walls of a hospital room. As Bethany slept that night I took Roxann into my arms, I rocked and walked her until she was comfortably asleep. As I paced around the small hospital room I looked over to see my wife sleeping like an angel. I smiled looked at my daughter, then back at my wife. The love God has for me must be incredible, he sent me two angels. Bethany had given everything she physically could for our family, our lives will be forever enhanced for her sacrifice. I cried. Having these two perfect girls with me made it the greatest day of my life. I wondered how God could have such great love for us all despite all our foibles, when I gazed upon my child I understood to a small extent, I saw perfection and knew our heavenly father sees that in all us.

You're not pregnant.

I spent my life telling everyone I knew (my old lady included) that the perfect number of children was somewhere in the zero range, knowing full well I did not know how many much loin fruit I was willing to harvest. In may, my wife had been really tired she needed naps more often than usual. Being a clueless fellow and knowing little to nothing of the tell tale signs of a mother with a fetus developing inside of her. She had been working long hours and hard days, which obviously, I convinced myself, is why she was so fatigued. My beautiful wife however having much better intuitions spoke with her older sister who had experienced child birth of her own four times over. Her response to Bethany was, "Sounds like you are pregnant." On mothers day unbeknownst to me Bethany and her sister took a little test, after scoring a 165 on an internet iq test, she then took a pregnancy test. It was a warm day just enough breeze to for perfect comfort, I was on the sports court draining 1 in 10 shots as is my skill level when Bethany came out to speak to me. "You know how I have been so tired lately?" "Yeah." "So I just took a pregnancy test." she responded; to which I quickly answered, "Your not pregnant." She produced the dollar store test from her pocket, sure enough 2 pink lines gleamed brightly in my over-sized pupils. I became stunned, absolute mental paralysis was my state. I sat pondering not speaking to anyone at the mothers day event we were attending, my own thoughts were impossible to be gathered. Once the initial shock was alleviated I was able to begin to start preparing to be a daddy, something I knew and know almost nothing about.