Formative and consequential...

When I first saw that positive on my test last year, I didn’t feel joyful right away. It was too formative and consequential a moment for joy. Joy came later, in unbelievably large amounts, but until then I was just like, “Whoa.” Literally. “Whoa.”

[http://thegestatrix.wordpress.com/2011/05/31/mama/]