It's the perfect idea, and Spencer brightens when Joel suggests it. There'd been no greater gift they could have received than finding out they're going to be parents just a couple days before Thanksgiving and even though the news had come at the same time as the demon, Spencer takes comfort in knowing that they'd still won. That only seems to have made the knowing all the better, all the more important, because as much as he doesn't like to think much on it, Spencer knows how easily they could have both ended up dead that day. Or rather, he supposes he'd have ended up dead, though for Joel, living with a demon in control of his body would equate to not really living at all.
He delicately hangs another ornament on the tree, taking care to space it evenly from the others so that Joel doesn't have to fix it--and it's not the first he's seen of how meticulous his husband can be about the organization of some things above others, though he understands it because he'd been just as meticulous about the library and now the store--and wills any thoughts of the demon away because it's been a month, and they're okay. They're still healing, Spencer still feels Joel jolt awake beside him some nights, and Spencer knows they can both already attest to the fact that the nightmares might never completely go away; but they've made it to almost the end of the year still standing and this time, they hadn't had to do it alone.
"I think that's the best and only way to do it," he finally agrees with a laugh. He can see it, any number of reactions from Ellie and Brian while Raleigh and Charlotte try to bite back amused and smug--respectively--smirks from across the table. In their defense, they probably shouldn't be telling anyone at all until after Erin's in her second trimester, but some of their closer friends know, and Spencer is relieved about that. He's a terrible liar, but he'd be worse at keeping something so incredibly life-altering like this a secret, especially because he hasn't had much of a chance over the years to deliver news that's inherently good. "What do you think the turnaround time will be before your mother starts offering us her best advice?"
He's teasing but if he's honest, Spencer wants Ellie's advice. She'd raised two incredible children, bias aside, and without his own mother here to reassure him that he's going to do a good job of things in the times he doubts himself, he thinks he'll likely do a lot of leaning on his in-laws when the baby's due date grows nearer. Joel will do the same, he's sure, in spite of the fact that they'll be reading all sorts of books and articles and exchanging notes on their own, because at the end of the day, they're still new at this. They're both still new at having a long-lasting, functioning, healthy relationship and not just a relationship, a marriage. They've been good at that, excellent even, and Spencer expects that they'll find the way that's right for them when the baby comes; but until then, he thinks he quite likes knowing that they have such incredible role models to look up to in Ellie and Brian.
"Well, god, now I just want it to be Christmas Day so we can tell them. Or do I want it to be July so we can be holding our baby? There's so much to look forward to, sometimes I have to remind myself this isn't all just an elaborate dream."
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He delicately hangs another ornament on the tree, taking care to space it evenly from the others so that Joel doesn't have to fix it--and it's not the first he's seen of how meticulous his husband can be about the organization of some things above others, though he understands it because he'd been just as meticulous about the library and now the store--and wills any thoughts of the demon away because it's been a month, and they're okay. They're still healing, Spencer still feels Joel jolt awake beside him some nights, and Spencer knows they can both already attest to the fact that the nightmares might never completely go away; but they've made it to almost the end of the year still standing and this time, they hadn't had to do it alone.
"I think that's the best and only way to do it," he finally agrees with a laugh. He can see it, any number of reactions from Ellie and Brian while Raleigh and Charlotte try to bite back amused and smug--respectively--smirks from across the table. In their defense, they probably shouldn't be telling anyone at all until after Erin's in her second trimester, but some of their closer friends know, and Spencer is relieved about that. He's a terrible liar, but he'd be worse at keeping something so incredibly life-altering like this a secret, especially because he hasn't had much of a chance over the years to deliver news that's inherently good. "What do you think the turnaround time will be before your mother starts offering us her best advice?"
He's teasing but if he's honest, Spencer wants Ellie's advice. She'd raised two incredible children, bias aside, and without his own mother here to reassure him that he's going to do a good job of things in the times he doubts himself, he thinks he'll likely do a lot of leaning on his in-laws when the baby's due date grows nearer. Joel will do the same, he's sure, in spite of the fact that they'll be reading all sorts of books and articles and exchanging notes on their own, because at the end of the day, they're still new at this. They're both still new at having a long-lasting, functioning, healthy relationship and not just a relationship, a marriage. They've been good at that, excellent even, and Spencer expects that they'll find the way that's right for them when the baby comes; but until then, he thinks he quite likes knowing that they have such incredible role models to look up to in Ellie and Brian.
"Well, god, now I just want it to be Christmas Day so we can tell them. Or do I want it to be July so we can be holding our baby? There's so much to look forward to, sometimes I have to remind myself this isn't all just an elaborate dream."