I knew the questions might come when I posted the picture of our Christmas tree. And since a few people have inquired, I should go ahead and end the suspense for anyone else who is wondering: No, S. is not pregnant.
Some of you have noticed that we have five stockings hung, and with only four people living in the house, it makes sense to wonder if something is in the oven. However, we have five stockings because my wife is the prototypical type A physician. Everything must be planned in advance and then the plan must be followed. When we bought our first decorations four years ago, she decided to go ahead and buy five: one for each of us and one for the three children we were planning on having. It would mess up her whole decorating scheme if we had to buy a new, unmatched, stocking each time we had a kid. And since our stocking holders, which spell Peace, require five stockings to look right, we’ve been hanging all five for each of our five Christmases in the house.
So now you know. No fetus in the womb. Yet…