Finally.

The cat’s out of the bag, and the beans are spilled. We finally told Rob’s parents last night and WHEW…what a relief!

I like to think that I can keep a secret pretty well.

I never did say anything when we were kids and used to play a game that consisted of throwing eggs around until someone missed (and hilarity ensued, ha ha!) and my mom would muse aloud, “So strange that the chickens don’t seem to be laying very well these days…?!”. I kept my mirth to myself.

Or the time (or rather… times…) my little brother snuck out of the house to go party with his rowdy buddies and rolled the car all the way down the driveway in the dead of night so my parents wouldn’t hear him. I didn’t breathe a word though I had many opportunities (I think may have been secretly proud/in awe of his daredevil ways).

Oops.

How is it that when there’s something you know you can’t say, it is the only thing that keeps popping up in your mind and you feel an irrational desire to BLURT OUT THAT VERY THING YOU KNOW YOU CAN’T?!

We picked up Rob’s parents from the airport last night after two weeks of frolicking in Mexico – two very tortured weeks for us two pour souls, having to keeping our mouths shut (or so they would have been tortured had not the news itself been so happy in its very nature). It just didn’t feel real until we told them, especially since we got to share the news in person with my family moments afterwards, as we were up at El Rancho for Thanksgiving with the whole Kneb Clan.

In the car on the way to their house, every question Rob’s parents asked seemed uncannily steeped in innuendo (but only to paranoid ol’ me, you see). Their lighthearted “So what’s new?” made me bite my lip and look away while I replied, “Oh, you know, same old, same old”, and their innocent inquiry of how my parents were made me squirm in my seat and my face heat up as I told what I knew was a largely downplayed “Oh, they’re really good.”

Really good? Really GOOD?! My parents were teary eyed and buoyed with emotion that must have surpassed the human capacity for joy, and all I could say was, ‘really good’?!!!?

Wow, I suck at lying.

So I’m glad it’s finally out and I can smile widely at all and sundry without check.

Rob and I are engaged!

And it’s so hard not to be nauseatingly blissful about it.

Photo courtesy of Duaner