A few years back I posted about learning that I was pregnant with Wanda. We were in Hawaii, TDY and then heading on to Australia. I had been sooooo sick and Rich hadn't been able to do anything right! Lol. The afternoon that I took the pregnancy test at Tripler Army Medical Center, they refused to give us the results and said we had to go back to the Hickam AFB Medical Center to get them. I hadn't told Rich what we had even gone to Tripler about, except a medical test, but by the time we got there, had the test and they had refused to give us the results and sent us back to Hickam, it was very nearly closing time and we were very worried that we were going to be too late to get the results. When we walked in, the medic at the desk congratulated Rich...you can imagine his surprise since he hadn't even been fully aware about what we were even testing for. Lol.
That evening Rich suggested that we take a drive around the island. It was August, the day had been very, very warm but as evening descended and the cool island breezes started to blow things started to cool off. Rich had rented a VW bug for us to get around during our week there and I consented to the drive. I was soooo tired and soooo sick that for the first little bit I dozed off and on. We had driven west out of Honolulu and then proceeded north and up around towards Laeie. As we traveled south towards Honolulu, night was descending and the city lights could be seen below us and we were listening to the radio when Paul Anka's song, "She's Having My Baby" came on. Rich grabbed my hand and squeezed it and started singing the lyrics to me. It was magical...and I never tire of hearing the song and remembering that night when we learned that we were going to be parents for the very first time. While we have always enjoyed the lyrics and the song with each of our children, it is Wanda that I associate the song with...obviously.
Paul Anka had written the song as a love song for his wife when she was expecting their fourth child. He released the song in June 1974 and by August it was climbing the charts and would eventually be number one. He took a lot of heat for the song from the "femi-nazis". But to me it was a love song that expressed the joy, the hope, the love and the wonder of marriage, pregnancy, birth, a child, and family in one fell swoop. I love the song. I love Rich. I love Wanda and am so glad she came to us...Happy Birthday!!! And I love that we have been sealed as a family and that each of our children, our children-in-law, and each of our 30 grandchildren are ours for eternity.
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