When Sonia told me...

It was a dark and stormy ni....oh wait, wrong kind of story telling.

I get to write about something of interest to me; not some boring paper I am BS'ing my through. This is the story of how I learned I was going to be a father!

There were couple weeks left until Christmas and Sonia and I were getting ready to leave for San Francisco. Sonia was doing some laundry. I was packing a suitcase. Sonia had wrapped this oddly shaped present and placed it under our undecorated Christmas tree. I could see it was the size of a CD but it had a weird bump on it (turns out it was a pregnancy test). I did not think anything of the gift. I figured it was a Christmas present. Then from the back room, Sonia hollers out to me that she has a present for me to open early. I jokingly replied, "Why? Is it important? Is it a pregnancy test?! hahahaha!"

Little did I know. Heh.

Sonia tried to play it off with a "Noooooo. You just need it....you need it before we leave for our trip." I figure oh okay, it's probably something Seahawks related for the game then if I have to have it before we leave. Maybe she got us something special for the game.

Sonia hands me the gift and I sit down to unwrap it. She grabs the camera. I unwrap the gift but do so in a way that I did not see the note on the CD or the pregnancy test. I saw the top of the CD, "Rockabye Baby! Lullaby Renditions of TOOL."

First, I thought, wow, that is pretty cool that someone made a CD of TOOL lullaby songs. Then I thought wait...lullabies? Then I thought, why would I need this now before the trip? It hit me. I unwrapped the rest of the gift to find the *positive* pregnancy test! My face lit up in shock and excitement! I was going to be a father! A dad! Sonia and I were going to have a baby!! After a moment of letting it soak in and register in my brain, I jumped up and hugged and kissed my wife, Sonia.


I then sat back down to let this moment soak in and that's when I read the note Sonia wrote on the CD. "To help raise the Rossman baby right!" Rossman baby. Raise the Rossman baby. It sunk in even more. We were going to start a family.

Somewhere in the last few minutes my eyes teared up. I thought maybe some onions had been chopped because my eyes were watering. =P

My beautiful, wonderful wife, the love of my life, was now also the mother of my child. I was ecstatic to know we were going to be starting a family together. I was also cautious of the journey ahead. Now began our hopes of a healthy baby and momma.

My parents were now grandparents. Sonia's parents were now grandparents. My brothers had become uncles. Our family was growing by one - our first child, their first grandchild, their first nephew or niece. We now had to think of a great, creative way to tell our family the news.

-- Tony