{"id":48,"date":"2011-06-08T08:59:39","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T06:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tngblog.com\/2011\/06\/08\/44\/"},"modified":"2011-06-08T08:59:39","modified_gmt":"2011-06-08T06:59:39","slug":"44","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tngphoto.com\/wordpress\/?p=48","title":{"rendered":"+ &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The time was 6:00am. The day was Tuesday. The dream I was having involved being on a beach, staring at the cruise ship out in the distant waters&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Nate! Nate!&#8221; my wife&#8217;s familiar voice carried over from our bathroom.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Like the heroic husband I am, I sat up and asked if she was ok.\u00a0 I wondered what kind of spider it would be that she needed my expertise to eliminate. If it was a daddy-long-leg spider, it would get a face full of shoe. If it was a wolf spider, it would get a face full of shoe. Basically, no matter what the species of spider, the cause of death would be m shoe. It&#8217;s been a tactic I&#8217;ve used all my life and I wasn&#8217;t about to change my strategy now; not at a critical moment like this one! <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Look at this! Make sure I&#8217;m reading that right,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Groggy and my eyes still not fully adjusted to the bathroom&#8217;s light, I was handed a white stick. On it were two symbols, the one reading, &#8220;+&#8221; and the other , &#8220;-&#8220;.\u00a0 My right hand held the stick and my left grabbed the stick&#8217;s original packaging.\u00a0 My eyes darted back to the stick then back to the box. Left. Right. Left. Right. Again and again.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Hmm. You&#8217;re pregnant. Congratulations, babe,&#8221; I said remarkably calm to my wife, Kendra. 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