My brother and I have not always had the best of relationships. We can get angrier with each other than with anyone else in the world. We don’t have a lot of patience with each other, probably because each we knew what the other was capable of when we were younger. Maturity was rather slow coming in both of us, I must admit. The relationship tends to be better when we are far apart, but I also know there is no one who would have my back faster than my brother. He knows the same about me.
When Cami and I got together, he was the first person in the family to ask me point blank. He was very supportive and just wanted to know what was going on. He’s always tried to smooth things over when they were not so easy for everyone else to grasp. After we told mom about the pregnancy, I got a text from my brother that said, “I heard you’re having a baby!” lol Very typical. Then a couple of days ago he asked me to call him. We talked about us having a baby and how happy we were and he told us he was very excited to be an uncle.
Then, this morning, I got another text from him asking me to call him. At 8:30 AM my time and 1:30 AM, I did. He said, “Hey, I forgot to ask you… which one of you is pregnant?” You cannot imagine what that meant to me. He just accepted point blank that we were having a baby and that he would be an uncle and it didn’t even occur to him to ask which one was actually carrying the baby. We had a great long talk while I walked Sally. (She was pretty happy to get a much longer morning romp than she usually does.) He said some pretty amazing things. The boy has grown into a pretty wonderful man. We are lucky to have him and our children will be lucky to have him.
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