So For Real by Rebekah Weatherspoon

Author:Rebekah Weatherspoon [Weatherspoon, Rebekah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rebekah Weatherspoon

Five

Telling my mom I was pregnant was like activating a sleeper agent. I thought she was excited to plan her first wedding, but grandkids? She was fucking ret tuh go. I convinced her that we could save this conversation for later that night, when I wasn't retching in the car and when she wasn't on the clock. But the second she got home from work, she blew up my phone. She had fifty thousands questions, all of which I had to answer because I knew she'd go into full nagging mode and start drilling Michael for details or worse, she'd fly out. I confirmed that yes, indeed we were having twins, that I was ten weeks along and yes, I'd been barfing more than I'd appreciate. She was ready though, tips and home remedies out the ass.

I was listening, taking mental notes, but there was something in my mom's tone that I couldn't ignore. The initial excitement was gone, replaced by genuine curiosity and concern. She was always in mom mode, but sometime after Michael and I announced our engagement she really started treating me like my own person, like she'd finally acknowledged my receipt of my grown woman pants.

She'd be on one of her slightly instructive overprotective tears and then something would shift and she'd ask me about Michael's mom or what plans we had for Easter like she was asking me woman to woman. She'd stopped worrying about the age gap between me and Michael, accepted that he had a different kind of common sense because his money hadn't been given to him at birth. He'd worked for it. She was always worried that one of his older, rich white associates would say something sideways to me, but at some point she'd given in to actually trusting us as a unit, and now as a married couple.

For me, there was knowing I was pregnant and then there's understanding that I was really going to be a parent. In that moment, my own mother was talking to me mom to mom and I felt it. Another shift.

"The doctor said everything is fine, but he wants me to keep my weight up."

"Oh yeah. I had the same problem. All I could keep down was mashed potatoes from KFC and I started wasting away. But it was fine. Just get plenty of rest. Don't do too much running around."

“I just wasn’t expecting this, I guess,” I told her. “I’m still kind of in wedding mode.”

“Yeah, but these things happen. You can still enjoy being a new bride and a new mom. Double the joy,” she said. We talked some more. She had a few more tips about the joint pain and other fun, gross chronic stuff I had to look forward to, but she seemed satisfied with the current situation. She was ready to grandma.

I almost succeeded in getting her off the phone, but then my dad came home and had his own round of questions. Then he wanted to speak

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