.....Stepmother, announced being pregnant, after we arrived home. Claimed, the reason for the shortened trip was because she didn't feel well.

Yeah, for someone who professed they couldn't have any more kids. This would be her 3rd child. A 15/16 year old son, a 13 year old daughter and one on the way.

She was 38!

Spent most of my pregnancies, wondering, could I? Would I? Handle a road trip?

That would be definitive.

Dad? Really? You know, just because you knock a woman up, you really aren't obligated to marry her!!

Of all those girlfriends, you had, and I met through the years, this is the one, when you've got one foot out the door, you decide is wife material?

Yeah, ....