Today:

"I'm expecting twins, imagine the surprise and shock when we got the news".

I picked myself up from the floor and asked if there was one egg or two. Why on earth didn't I effusively congratulate her there and then? Instead I blundered on with;

"That'll be a lot of work".

Pragmatically she said, " I've never known anything else so it won't make any difference to me".

"They'll be your little lambs" I say and recover the moment by adding "How wonderful".

:DD