After investigating the pavilion for a bit, I walked the path to the deck, then entered the house by the back door. Will was sitting in the kitchen on a bar stool eating a sandwich when I entered.
“Hey Mister.” I greeted him.
“Hi hon.” He responded.
“This might seem silly to ask, but have you seen all of that out there?” I inquired still amazed by everything.
“I have a question.” He stated.
“Yes.”
“Are you going to be like this when we build our vacation house next year?” He asked. I stared blankly, like a deer in headlights. “I will take that as a yes, and I think you need to see a doctor.”
“I think I need a nap or something.” I agreed.
“Or something.” He repeated.
“Hey, meanie. Why don't you have trouble wrapping your brain around all of this?” I sassed.
“Because we've been planning all of this for years. Why should I be so surprised that our plans succeeded?”
“Well, I guess.”
“This has been our dream, what we have worked for for so long. The only thing we don't have now is children.”
“Yeah, why is that?” I asked.
“Because we have been working to attain all of this. So we can be home, you can take care of them and we could be financially independent.”
“But you still work.”
“I work because I love what I do. The financial aspect of it is secondary. We invest what I make and that is how we live. You write and invest, I have my recording studio.”
During this conversation I began to make myself some lunch. In spite of my choices, I decided on something simple. I had shells and cheese, spinach, chicken nuggets, and pears. This was a meal I had apparently become accustomed to in our poorer years. The only difference now was that I was able to use fresh ingredients and make everything from scratch, rather from a can or box.
“So you're saying that we have everything in order and that all we have to do now is have children?” I replied as I placed a handful of fresh spinach into a steamer.
“Yes, I guess you could say that.”
“So, what are we waiting for?” I smiled.
"Well I would suggest that you get some of those supplements you have gotten in the past and let's go ahead and try." he consented. Not a three months later I found myself pregnant, with twins. My midwife was a fantastic woman of great experience and wisdom. She suggested a doctor she knew for when we wanted to find out the gender of the babies; at that point though we were just happy and didn't care about gender yet. Ultimately I did want to know gender before they were born because I didn't like the idea of either girls or boys spending their first three to six months of life in gender neutral clothes. No matter what the rest of the world said, we wanted our daughters to be girls and our sons to be boys, in the trues sense of the terms.
I was thankful that because my eating habits were already good that I didn't have to change anything. I was warned about my usual exercise routine and to was eventually restricted to certain activities. Being in my thirties and carrying twins brought greater likelihood of being put on bed rest later in the pregnancy.
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