Dad: Dazed and Confuzed

It's the weekend of my sister, Michelle's birthday, and the family is going out to breakfast. It's a long, long line at Mimi's, and we have a 30 minute wait in front of us. To kill time, we let Michelle open her present. We got her a super cute, fully accessorized outfit for her to wear with attitude now that she's sporting 15 years on earth. It was so cute in fact, people came up to us asking where we got it.

Once that was over, we casually mentioned that we got my dad something, for no particular reason. We handed him the gift bag and he pulled out the box and unwrapped it. He said, "Oh what a nice frame!", and promptly passed it to my step-mother, Kathy.

Let me stop here and point out the fact that the sterling silver frame is decorated with a baby carriage and has little block beads strung across it that spells out "B-A-B-Y". And don't forget the fact that inside the frame is an ultrasound picture of the baby.

But no, Dad doesn't see any of that... it's just a frame. Makes me wonder what he really sees all these years that I've been buying him Father's Day, birthday and Christmas presents.

Suddenly, Dad sprung do life as Kathy screamed, "WHAT!!!!", then asked, "Is this, what I think it is?"

Then Dad, ever astute says, "What?"

Kathy's ignoring him, and says, "Are you pregnant?"

John and I are finally glad that somebody gets it, and answer, "Yep."

Then Kathy screams to the entire population that is waiting for breakfast at 10:30am on a Saturday morning, which is considerable mind you, "We're pregnant!!!"

Dad says, "Lemme see". He means the frame. "I need to build you another room on your house."

So that's the story of how we're remodeling our house again, after only 2 years since the last remodel. Hopefully, by the end of the year, we'll have a 3 story, 3 bedroom, 2 bath home with a view, a HUGE walk in closet and a baby nursery.