| Sometimes I got a little scared about whether I could pull this off. But then I realized it was not really such a big risk: if it came out about how Brystol got that baby, my future was cooked anyway, no different than it would be if my non-pregnancy were to be discovered. So I wasn’t really going to be any worse off, either way, given how my family always makes it so hard for me. And if I could pull it off, I would be way ahead. Well, I hardly dared dream about getting the VP pick, but that sweet blogger boy kept putting those thoughts into my head every time I got onto my Blackberry.
It's a good thing I have my church to keep me humble.
Boy, what a slog to put that big fake belly on me all the time. I have to admit I cheated a little, just to look and feel a little better at such an important time for me, but that was sure a mistake. Amazing how just a few photos can do you in.
So only Brystol and the dad and a few inner-circle folks knew about this. And, sure, our doctor, because we needed her for her, um, you know -- specialty. But when Brystol and I brought Trig home from the hospital and Sadie saw him, she fell right into calling him her baby brother – because Brystol and Levi were together again, big time, and Sadie thought they were about to be married, so they would all be siblings-in-law, Trig, too, and I’d be Sadie’s Mom-in-law. So: lookin’ good!
And Brystol was just no help at all, after all I’d done for her. Crying jags, and sleeping all the time. So rude to me. It was really a relief when Levi took over, being so sweet to her, because that took her and her big depression out of my hair. Of course, I knew what Levi wanted. I tried to joke them out of THAT idea by teasing them about getting pregnant, just to remind them. Joking didn't work any better than abstinence, and it happened anyway -- they laughed when they told me. Well, that’s Alaska for you. She told me she was pregnant with Tripp just a little while before the convention, so I really had to think fast.
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"So it was really great, I was only pregnant for a month!"
Is this convincing enough for 8 months?
This is more like it!
But -- can you grow a baby in 5 weeks?
Does this look like a one-month premature baby?
How could these other photos of Trig (left and center) look so much younger than chubby Trig when Sarah showed him off at (supposedly) 2 days old (right)? Could Trig have been born before April 18, when Sarah said he was?
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