One down

So my sister, Beth, decided to drop an impromptu visit on us today. Her husband was in Chicago for the Red Sox/Cubs game and since it was her last day of teaching this year, she decided to come on down.

What to do, what to do?

Sister coming. Can't lie. Can't drink. Going out to bars. Oh no.

Sooooooo, we told her.

When she first arrived, she told me my skin looked really good. I almost puked. How the hell could she see something like this from my skin? But I recovered nicely and said thanks, blah blah, would you like a lemonade?

So the three of us are sitting in the living room and she announces she wants to go shopping at Express. So before we get up to leave I kick Josh, so he will stop typing and pay attention and my sister sees this and looks at me like, "whaaaaaa?"

So I kind of laugh and say, "So. Um. We have something to tell you..."

PAUSE.

She jumps off the chair and yells "OHMYGOD ARE YOU PREGNANT?"

I say yes and start to laugh and she runs over and hugs us both and keeps saying, "Are you kidding?" At one point I looked at her and said, "Yeah, I'm shitting you. Of course we're not kidding."

Then we went shopping.

But we swore her to secrecy. No telling the families. We told her she's got to keep it to herself until Josh's birthday party, which is June 24. A whole two weeks away. Ha -- now she has a secret, although we also did tell her husband, Paul, who was also very excited.