How to change your family forever, on a Friday night, as told by T-Bomb and Becky B.:

"We're having a baby. It's due on April 30. Here's a photo. It's 4 centimeters long right now."*

Everyone is counting on me to be the subversive aunt, but at the moment I'm also the one who stands in the corner, stunned.

It's due on April 30. This is already a very good time to be born, and my May 2 birthday makes me legit to say so. Earlier that month is a wedding, my 9 days in Italy and probably Amsterdam, then Pesach, then my birthday, then my father's, then Mother's Day, and somewhere in there my new neice or nephew. NEW!