The Tea Leaves Told Me

05 June 2010

My mom, grandma, my sister and I have a fun little tradition every couple of years for someone’s birthday, mother’s day or just for no reason at all we go to get our tea leaves read together.

I must preface this by saying that if you know me, I am a very practical, down to earth, critical thinking kind of person. While I do have an active imagination, it is not like me to actually live in fantasy or believe in make-believe. So I always approach these lunches out with a huge grain of skeptical salt.

The first experience with this reader was about 7 years ago. She told me that there was a man in my life. “Oh no there isn’t” I, a fiercely independent world traveler at that point, said. She said “Oh, trust me there is, he just hasn’t made himself known to you yet”. She then went on to describe this young man. “OK, we’ll see about that” I jokingly twirped back. About a week later I began exchanging e-mails with this guy that I had connected with. He was new to the area and we had lots of outdoor sporting activities in common. We started seeing each other, and, well we hit it off, and the rest is history.

A few years later we returned, and this time she told me that there was a marriage proposal in the works. I again didn’t believe her, because I figured we’d probably never bother getting married and just live common law together. A few months later low and behold, there he was popping the question at the summit of a beautiful mountain hike!

Visit number 3 was shortly after we got married. She saw two little boys very close in age that were coming to us soon. OK, this is where the story takes a curve. A couple of years later the children have still not arrived. What happened to them?

So this morning’s reading was interesting. She described this time of waiting, preparing, eating well, looking after ourselves, and making sure we’ll be great parents. She again sees two little boys. She says the two of them are very different little people. One is very rough and ready, and the other has more finesse. In fact they are so different that people don’t think they are twins, but they are going to come together. Conception won’t be as difficult as we think it might be. It will happen without a hitch as the pieces fall into place. Part of the pregnancy will include some time with my feet up, not because of any problem, just because of carrying twins. They are very healthy happy kids. She sees DH and I totally together in this, each holding one boy.

Now the dilemma is, do I tell Hubs everything the tea leaf lady predicted before or after he signs the consent form regarding the risk of multiples associated with superovulation +IUI? Tonight is the start of my meds. I can’t help but wonder if these 2 little pills I take each night for the next 5 nights will magically turn into my two little fraternal twin boys? The rational brain says this is nonsense, while the dreamy side likes to think there is a chance. Hmmmmm....