I'm sorry you had to hear it here, and not in person

02:25:2004
But we're going to have another kid...

I got the news a month or so ago, and we've been keeping it quiet up to now. However the floodgates have opened and now everyone knows except those whose only contact with me is via this weblog.
And now you know as well.
I was sitting in the kitchen reading the paper and ----i went to the toilet. Normally this isn't a cause for much fanfare in the house; she goes to the toilet all the time. What I didn't know was that she had quietly bought and somehow used (I don't want to know the details) a white tapered plastic thing with a small viewing window set into it, and when she came down from the toilet a little blue line had appeared in the window.
----i doesn't believe in mincing words. She didn't try and prepare me with a preamble about how nice it would be for ---y and --m to have another little person to play with. She didn't tell me to sit down and steel my nerves. She just said it. 'I'm pregnant'.
After a certain amount of flabberghastery I went to the family bottle of Unicum and downed a shot. Unicum, by the way, is an extremely bitter and strong jet black liquor from Hungary. I only drink the stuff after a very heavy meal or when ----i goes into labour. However its powers of nerve-steeling are manifold and I am pleased to say it did the trick and we sat down to discuss 'what do do'.

'What to do' is a euphamism for 'whether to go through with it or have it terminated', and if the as-yet-unborn kid reads this bit one day they can be grateful for the fact that after much soul searching and grandiose plans to get a day-nanny of some sort we've decided to give the 3-kid family a go.
But that's the last one. Absolutely. I'll get my dick tied in a knot before I go through the whole baby thing for a fourth time.
So come back soon for more world-shattering news from the ever increasing family. (though I use the term 'soon' to mean anything up to 9 months)

ps. Due date is September 25th, by the way. Do the math.

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