GALTGULCH8 Posted September 6, 2010 Share Posted September 6, 2010 (edited) My daughter in law presented my wife and I with a gift which was a small box with a bow on it. Inside was a fresh lemon on which were two strips of paper about the size of those found in a Chinese fortune cookie. On one was written: "About two inches long" and the other: "But not for long"I realized what this meant, that she was pregnant. When my wife, who had just about given up hope of ever being a grandparent after so many years of waiting and cajoling, realized, she was ecstatic.Why the lemon? Because an egg would have been too obvious.gulch Edited September 6, 2010 by gulch8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaalChatzaf Posted September 6, 2010 Share Posted September 6, 2010 My daughter in law presented my wife and I with a gift which was a small box with a bow on it. Inside was a fresh lemon on which were two strips of paper about the size of those found in a Chinese fortune cookie. On one was written: "About two inches long" and the other: "But not for long"I realized what this meant, that she was pregnant. When my wife, who had just about given up hope of ever being a grandparent after so many years of waiting and cajoling, realized, she was ecstatic.Why the lemon? Because an egg would have been too obvious.gulchMazel tov.Ba'al Chatzaf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
9thdoctor Posted September 6, 2010 Share Posted September 6, 2010 Here's to fecund OLers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GALTGULCH8 Posted September 7, 2010 Author Share Posted September 7, 2010 Mazel tov.Ba'al ChatzafIt is going to be a boy judging from the ultrasounds, due in January, presently 14 ounces.Thanks.gulch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiaer.ts Posted September 7, 2010 Share Posted September 7, 2010 Congratulations. Expecting my third nieble in February myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaalChatzaf Posted September 7, 2010 Share Posted September 7, 2010 Congratulations. Expecting my third nieble in February myself.nieble? Pray what is that?Ba'al Chatzaf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiaer.ts Posted September 7, 2010 Share Posted September 7, 2010 (edited) Congratulations. Expecting my third nieble in February myself.nieble? Pray what is that?Ba'al ChatzafA word I made up to refer to niece or nephew without reference to the gender. My sister prefers not to know her children's sex ahead of time, a policy with which I concur. The Old English for nephew (which itself comes from French) was nefa, and had that word survived, it would be neave, and its diminutive form would have been something like neable.http://www.umanitoba...ge_list/41.html Edited September 7, 2010 by Ted Keer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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