It took me some to get pregnant.  I didn't expect that it
would.  I even kept an early home pregnancy test secretly
in my drawer that first month of marriage - sure that I
would need it almost immediately.  Everything I'd been
taught and told growing up had led me to believe that once
you did certain things, pregnancy was inevitable.  In my
case, it just wasn't true. 

Each month I would anxiously count the days and then be
disappointed. The early home pregnancy test remained in the
drawer, the hope of the future laying alongside mementoes
of the past, all jumbled up with some silk and lace
belonging to the present.

The months passed.  Every morning I put my hand in the
drawer to find something, I would touch the test kit box
and be reminded that I hadn't yet had occasion to use it.
One day I couldn't stand it anymore.  I picked up the early
home pregnancy test kit and threw it out in the trash. 

Two more months passed and then checking the calendar again
just before going to bed one night I realized that my
period was late - only a day - but late nevertheless.  My
husband and I drove out to the drug store only to find that
it was closed.  If only I hadn't been so impatient and
thrown out the original one I berated myself!   

Next morning we purchased a new early home pregnancy test
and took it home.  I was now two days late.  Eagerly I
followed the instructions on the pregnancy test box,
terrified that I'd do it wrong and get the wrong result for
the wrong reason and still not know. 

The minutes I waited felt endless but they were worth it
when my husband and I were rewarded with a positive result.
 The early home pregnancy test proclaimed in pink ink that
we were at last pregnant.

I carried the test stick around all day - terrified that it
had been a mistake and that it wasn't positive at all - but
each time I looked at it, the pregnancy was affirmed.  A
date was set with the maternity clinic, and the pregnancy
began its natural development.  It's been a few years now,
and that pregnancy has changed from a growing bump, to a
growing baby and now a growing boy. 

That early home pregnancy test however remains as it did
that morning it announced our coming child - showing a pink
positive result - and it lives, alongside the one that
proclaimed my pregnancy with his brother, in the drawer of
lace and silk with all my other treasured mementos of the
past

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