The Beginning

It began with motion sickness on the bus out to Johnson County Community College. Mary was headed out to her summer classes and using the free WiFi on the bus to catch up on her classes facebook. She was chatting with me while I was at the office and started complaining about getting sick to her stomach, "This is so strange. I never get motion sickness". Well, she had never been pregnant either.

The next big flag was Mary's new interest in roast beef. When I would pick her up from the bus station after she got back from her classes, the next stop would always be Arby's or Hy-Vee to buy a pound of Angus-cut roast beef. Start typing "strange food cravings" into Google and two of the five suggestions involve pregnancy, which is less that I assumed but a tell-tale sign nonetheless.

Some friends were planning to visit us for the Forth of July weekend and invariably alcohol would be consumed, so we figured it was probably a good time to see if our suspicions were correct. After seeing Cars 2 with some friends, we proceeded to Wal-Mart and purchased a pregnancy test. You can see the results for yourself.

And yes, two lines means you have a bun in the oven. Pregnancy test are actually a cool piece of biotechnology. Maybe I'll talk about them in a later post. A second test confirmed the results, so no drinking for Mary on the Forth or waterslides at Schlitterbahn. But a baby far outweighs either of those two activities. After the first test, we called the doctor and we couldn't get in until July 11th. The wait would be tough.