Surprise - You're Going To Be A Dad!
It was Easter weekend 2005. After a lazy morning, I had gone to the kitchen to start making some breakfast. I had no idea about what was about to happen next... Your mother walked in and announced quite abruptly "I'm pregnant". When it comes to surprise announcements, that one scored a clean 10/10. It wasn't like she had even given me any kind of a heads-up. Often times in relationships when this could be a possibility a woman may say something like "I'm late, should we do a test?" But no. I wasn't kept in the loop, until it was official. I'm actually impressed as to how I reacted to the news. I'll be honest and admit there have been many times in my life when I've received news that falls at either the extremely good or extremely bad end of the scale, and I haven't dealt with it as well as I should at the time. On this occasion though, I felt calm and positive. This is GOOD news, surely? We went out for th...