When I found out that I was pregnant with my first and only child I was over the moon. I was in Honolulu , Hawaii married to a Navy man and terrified out of my mind. I had my two girlfriends with me at the time Both of them from Virginia and sisters. Sisters who would laugh at my accent and I in turn would laugh at theirs.
The only reason we got the stupid test was because when we were at Wakiki Beach earlier that day one of the sisters ( we will call her "A") said that my "boobs looked huge!"
Now anyone that has known me since preschool knows that you could pile plates on my chest , that is how flat I am and was. Boys never fell for my chest.... It must have been my sparkling personality.
So I laughed and I think I threw sand at her. And then , because we were all in our early twenties we decided to have a party out of the fact that I could be pregnant.
We went to the drug store and bought 7 different pregnancy tests and headed back to my apartment.
I drank about a gallon of water and headed to the bathroom.
"here goes nothing" was what I thought. My girlfriends were outside the door encouraging me and asking if anything had happened yet.
So I did the usual. Took the test, placed it between my legs and let nature take its toll.
When I looked at the stick after 3mins, I was in shock.
I was pregnant.
I don't know what was going outside my bathroom door. For that moment became quite and still, with me all of a sudden rubbing my stomach.
I can remember looking down at my still flat tummy and thinking " There inside me is my little girl."
That's when it all seemed so simple.
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