Pick Me Up!

LION’S HEART

Looking down at the pregnancy test, my stomach dropped.

There were two lines, forming a clearplus.

I was pregnant.

Horror rocked through me and tears formed in my eyes.

This is not what I’d planned.

With my husband Kenneth, 39, already on the road as a coach driver, I was alone in the house with this news.

How are we going to manage? I thought.

We already had such a busy household with our three children–Naomi, 14, Nathan, 10, and Kyle, eight.

My days were filled with working full-time and my nights ironing school uniforms before crashing into bed.

Throwing another child into the mix would only add more unwanted stress.

Calling Kenneth, I fought back tears.

‘It’ll be fine,’ he said. ‘We’ll find a way to manage.’

With Kenneth’s words in my mind, I rang my parents Linda, 56,

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