PJO and I decided that it was time to tell my parents that they would be grandparents before the year is over. We wanted to tell both my mom and dad at the same time, mostly because I was afraid that they would not react well, and at least if they were together they would hopefully balance each other out. This was sort of difficult to plan, since my parents are divorced and we don't really plan to all get together unless there is a reason, like birthdays. I ended up telling them that we wanted to come visit one day of this three day weekend and that we should get dinner together.
I was expecting the first thing out of my dad's mouth to be, "what about school and your career?!?!?!" Luckily, it was the second or third thing. For some reason, I was so nervous to say it, and no time seemed quite right. We went through all of dinner talking about everything else. Then I had to order dessert because I needed to buy myself some time. When dessert came, we were somehow talking about a babysitter we had growing up who was in a car accident, and subsequently a coma for a month or two. I had no seguay. I just blurted out, "on a happier note, we're having a baby!" Well, both of my parents had a completely blank expression. No one said anything for a solid 30 seconds. It took about 2 minutes to convince them that we weren't joking. Then, surprise of all surprises, they were happy! I have never seen my parents so shocked.
I think as I've gotten older, my parents trust me (and PJO) much more and try to be happy for me when I'm happy. I'm sure that this is not what they had planned out in their heads, but they're going with the flow. I feel more at ease now that I've told them, and I am more excited to tell other people. I can't believe we're still not telling PJO's parents for a month!
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My parents had basically this exact same reaction. Dead silence. It still haunts me. I think next time we're going to have Landon tell them he's going to be a big brother- they have to smile whenever he says things!
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