After telling Emma’s parents (and surviving) it was time to go over to my mum’s place to repeat the process. On the way down the freeway we were happily recounting the first attempt. I quietly decided to show her how it’s done (ha)!

Mum was a bit flighty, it’s been more than a month since I saw her last – 7 weeks, in fact. As Announcement Time approached I started to notice all kinds of things that needed my immediate attention. Not least of all the legion of photos of old girlfriends that adorned the dinning room dresser!

Mum did enjoy flashing my old dorky photos from when I was a kid. First bike, first girlfriend, first social ball etc Emma was having a great time. Of course.

So, before we got sucked in to a photo album that I forgot (to set fire to) I jumped in with, “The reason we haven’t seen you since Bali is because we’ve been making a baby!”

Smooth.

Also, not technically accurate; At first it was because of the ginormous head wound Emma was sporting and THEN it was because of the baby…. But that’s another story…

After the double take, it was all giggles and congratulations. I’m a star, Emma is great; let’s go have a cuppa tea.

Woohoo!

Image by g-mikee (flickr).