Poppin' Out

You know you can no longer hide a secret when your neighbors start giving you side-long glances and a random stranger makes a comment about your burgeoning belly.

Most of the family/friends I wanted to tell now know.  Who doesn't know?  Um...THE KIDS.  Why?  I don't know.  We just haven't had a chance yet, I guess?  We spent our whole beach vacation relaxing and didn't bring it up.  I meant to tell them when we got back, but we were always tired or "not in the mood."  And then school started, and really, do I want to burden my kids with that surprising info the week that they're adjusting to a new school with multiple getting-lost opportunities (DD1) and new teachers?  Not to mention that every possible night we've had this week DH has been home late and missed dinner, so a quick "oh by the way..!" while we're rushing these tired monsters off to bed seemed inappropriate.

Tonight is pizza-and-a-movie night.  This would be the perfect opportunity--except that DH usually doesn't get home until AFTER the kids and I have started the movie.  Then what--stop the movie to tell?  Anyway, it HAS to be this weekend.  Especially with that random receptionist at DS's doctor's appointment this morning making not one but TWO comments about the approaching baby--in front of HIM.  I think he's mostly clueless, tho.  He doesn't pay much attention to well, MUCH, so I think it went right over his head.

(And actually, I was on the phone the other day and made some sort of comment OUT LOUD right in front of him about, "the new baby" and couldn't believe I'd slipped like that.  It didn't seem to register, but who knows what that kid actually picks up when he appears to not be paying attention?)

Oh, and I guess DH's family doesn't know yet, either.  I am planning on making an announcement on FB as soon as the kids know, so then, THEN they will know, too.

(That's actually how my brother found out.  Because my dork of a father made a comment to a comment on his FB wall about becoming a Grandpa again--my SIL saw it, and she and my brother KNEW Dad wasn't referring to them.  Um, Dad, you gotta be careful about what you put on a public site like that!  Well, my brother and father agreed that basically it's MY fault--if one wants to keep a secret, one shouldn't TELL it.  *sigh*  Agreed.)

Anyway, I did have a few weird, sharp pains for a brief moment while we were on the beach last week.  So then I spent several days trying not to panic about that.  But nothing else seemed out of the ordinary, and I didn't feel it again.  And now that I seem to have gotten so big that I can't even hide my belly under empire waist shirts (at least not enough to fool receptionists!), I'm thinking that everything is OK.  Next appointment--next week.