Part I
Today my brother came to tell us something very important. On a couch that only fits two, mom and dad sat on either side of me and we faced Joe shifting in our seats like members of a panel. He positioned himself across from us on an oversized wooden chair with fraying wicker and jovially explained that Cynthia, his wife, was pregnant. Upon hearing the news, mom and dad burst with elation. Mom gave him hugs, dad shook his hand and both said how proud they were. “I can’t believe I’m going to be a grandma!” mom exclaimed over and over. I remembered my toes stroking the wooden floor amidst all the celebration and timidly glancing upward to make contact with Joe’s blue smiling eyes. He reached down and patted me on the shoulder, saying, “I know you will be a wonderful uncle for my child.”
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