#threethingschallenge, Fiction, Prompt

Three Things Challenge #M163

Tessa

Prompt Rules

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This week’s theme is TIME
Your three words today are:
LIFE
BIRTH
OCCASION

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Five?

By Tessa Dean November 2022

Sandy had spent most of her adult life wishing for a child. She had seen many births, as her sisters each had children, but the miracle of life never visited her, no matter how hard she tried.

She was approaching her late 40s and it was becoming an even more distant dream. After watching her baby sister give birth, she started to cry, hiding her tears of sadness, saying they were tears of happiness. Everyone knew she wanted a child, but not how much she wanted one. She tried the fertility clinic, and it wasn’t helping either. 

She decided to give up and stopped her fertility treatments, but a few weeks later, she felt nauseous every morning. She cursed the nausea, but the thought never crossed her mind that she could be pregnant. Every morning she ate crackers or dry toast, trying to settle her stomach. Her sisters were watching her, and having all been through several pregnancies, they all began chatting amongst themselves. 

Finally, they brought the idea up to Sandy about the possibility that she might be pregnant and that she should take a pregnancy test. She told them she thought they were crazy. She hadn’t gotten pregnant yet, so why now that she stopped the treatments two days ago? 

After several days of encouragement, one of her sisters bought a test, and they all gathered around her while she peed on the stick. They waited anxiously. Positive! They couldn’t believe it. They had several tests, and she took all of them with the same result. They were all crying as she called the doctor to make an appointment. The doctor confirmed the pregnancy. Everyone was shocked and ecstatic.

When the day came for the ultrasound, she had even more to be surprised about. It was not one baby, but they had found five heartbeats so far, most likely due to the fertility treatments. She was to be blessed with more than one child. There were at least five in there. The exact count would come later as the fetuses grew. The family celebrated the occasion with a party. Sandy knew she had a long, difficult journey ahead of her, and she would have been happy with only one child, but she could be lucky and have all five of them survive. After all these years of waiting and hoping, they would have a houseful of children.

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Tessa – 

Advocate for mental health and invisible illnesses

New Author’s Website – http://www.tessadeanauthor.wordpress.com

Author – Old Writing –  http://www.finallyawriter.wordpress.com

About my life –  http://www.tessacandoit.wordpress.com

Author of a book published on the blog, https://tessacandoit.com/government-property-a-memoir-as-a-military-wife/

Published by Tessa

My name is Tessa Dean and I am an author and blogger. My writing styles vary and I love writing using prompts. I am also writing my first book, a Memoir entitled "Government Property - A Memoir of a Military Wife".  This is being published on the blog rather than the traditional way. I am putting up chapters as I go along. I keep my blog filled with useful content, stories, and poems. Plenty to keep you busy. I have also been interviewed by blogs and had other posts published on many different blogs. I also wrote a series of articles on Bipolar Disorder for IBPF (International Bipolar Foundation). I am in my 60’s and disabled which allows me plenty of time to write to my heart’s content. I live in southern New Jersey and have 3 children and 5 grandchildren. My oldest grandchild is a Sargent in the United States Marine Corps.

10 thoughts on “Three Things Challenge #M163”

    1. Thanks! My daughter had her last child at 41 and they definitely do a lot more care for the older moms. I am trying to write more than a sentence or two. It seems harder for me right now. Not sure why. I used to write those long serial posts, but I don’t know if it is the words or what, but I am finding it more difficult.

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      1. I know what you mean. There is no deadline on the 3TC and you don’t have to stick with the theme, which is just to help me not dup0licate words too often. Always good to read what you come up with.

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      2. Thanks. The words are similar though and that makes it hard to come up with a lot of different things to write about. I like to strain my brain and make something out of all the words. It inspired me to make so many stories out of the words. Sometimes I have skipped because I couldn’t come up with something since the words are all so similar. I just do what I can, but I do miss the old way for sure.

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      6. Ok great. I have no ideas for the three holidays so I am skipping this one. I may be skipping more of them if they are all holidays. Holidays don’t inspire me at this point.

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