Another true story (so as to redeem my husband in the blogging public's eyes).
Long, long ago before the "age of children" entered their lives, there lived Husband and Wife. They had been married for several years, and they were ready to take the next step and start a family. They had decided that when summer arrived, they would start trying.
Husband was in the military, forcing the couple to live far from their families. One spring Wife decided to take an 18 hour road trip so she could spend a week with her family. While there, she was able to spend Mother's Day with her mom. As she enjoyed Mother's Day brunch and watched the requisite opening of the Hallmark cards, she thought about her future baby, and hoped that next Mother's Day she would receive a card of her own.
When she arrived home, Husband was there to greet her at the door. She walked in weary from her long drive, and from the corner of her eye caught glimpse of something out of place. There in the center of the living room was a mission-style glider. Husband explained to his sweetheart that this chair was to go in the nursery of their yet-to-be conceived child, so that she would have a comfy place to sit and soothe their baby, when the time came. "You are going to be a wonderful mother", he said to her. "Happy Mother's Day."
