Sharing the Big News May 19, 2006
After keeping our secret for sooo long, the perfect opportunity to share it with my parents came just after Mother’s Day, as they prepared for their momentous trip to Bolivia for my dad’s 50th high school reunion. Since they were flying out of LAX on Wednesday, May 17, they planned to spend the day before they left in LA, resting and helping their cat Sake adapt to his new “vacation” home with us.
But how to share such momentous news? Could we come up with something better than the typical, ‘Mom, Dad, we have something to tell you.’ That’s the preamble I gave six years ago, when I called to tell them that Daniel had proposed and they guessed it right away. No, this time around, we had to think of a slightly more memorable way to let them know of their impending status as grandparents. A few weeks earlier, we hit on the perfect plan: framing one of the sonogram pictures we’d received during my many visits to UCLA to confirm the “peanut” was growing as it should. How could I argue with that old adage: “A picture’s worth a 1,000 words”?
