Today is my Dad's 70th birthday. In order to keep our cover, we emptied a bottle of red wine & replaced it with grape juice (oh yes, we did). I drank that at dinner...knowing that if I'd declined to drink that Kerry would be onto the news....no offense to my Dad, but I doubted he'd pick up on me not drinking.
Of course I wanted to drink real wine....Welch's grape juice is well, not the really the "grape" juice I was yearning for. I'll take a little fermentation any day!
I think we may have to pull off this bamboozle more than once to keep friends & family in the dark over the course of the next months. After all, tomorrow marks the start of Week #5...hardly into this pregnancy at all! A lot can happen in the next 8 weeks until we hit that 2nd trimester mark. I'm scheming having conversations with servers at restaurants here & there while the in-laws are visiting, having them substitute club soda with lime for a vodka tonic to keep the cover...or seriously dragging in Welch's bottles & having the server go with my cover-up. This seems like a lot of work, but we just don't want to have everyone bask in the good news only to have the carpet pulled out from underneath.
So far, so good. Round 1: Dad & Kerry....I believe we fooled you.
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