Well, it was approximately one year ago that if you had asked me when we were going to have kids, I would have told you I wasn't sure we even wanted any at all. My, oh my, how much can change in one year! Jeff and I are MORE than happy to share that we are expecting our first child in October! Even just typing that makes me want to cry tears of joy.
On Wednesday, January 27th, 2010, Jeff and I took our first pregnancy test, which excitingly came back positive. It was totally unexpected and shocking, yet SUPER exciting to us. We weren't exactly "trying" to get pregnant, yet we both suspected that we were pregnant, even before the test confirmed it.
So here's how the story begins...
I had stopped by mom's after work to wax her eyebrows....Mary was over there too, and they asked me to stay for dinner (dad was in Florida), but all I had on my mind was my missed period and wanting to get home to talk to Jeff about taking a pregnancy test, so I declined dinner with them. On my way home, I stopped at Wal-Mart to pick up some dinner and decided...Ah...what the heck...why not pick up a pregnancy test too. Couldn't hurt. So, when I got home I told Jeff of my purchase and said that I wanted to wait until Saturday morning to take it. I'm not sure why. At that point, being a couple of days late, we already figured we were pregnant anyway, but I guess I wanted to do it on a Saturday when I knew we could spend the day together (being excited or sad together depending on the test results). But Jeff said, no way.. he wanted me to go take the test right then. He couldn't wait! So, since I had never taken a test before, I read the directions, took the test and called Jeff into the bathroom. The directions said to wait 3 minutes...two lines means pregnant, one line means not pregnant. About a minute into the test, there were two VERY apparent pink lines. Jeff said "What's that mean? Will one go away if it's negative?" I said, "Um...no. That means we are pregnant!". We both just started giggling. It was such a weird yet, great feeling! I took another test later that night, just to be sure...even though false positives are very rare. I still can't get over the fast results. I guess I've always heard that it's best to test in the morning, and sometimes the second line is very very faint. And since we tested in the evening and the second line was even darker than the first, I was thinking Holy cow, we really ARE pregnant aren't we!
A couple of days later on Friday, 1/29 we had dinner plans with Mary and Ryan. Jeff and I discussed the possibility of telling them, even though we weren't quite ready to tell people yet. We decided that we were pretty sure Mary would suspect it if I wasn't drinking any wine. Maybe not that night, but eventually she would surely start to wonder why I wasn't drinking alcohol. And it was important to us that we told people before they started guessing. So, at dinner that night we told them our exciting news! I'm sorry to everyone else that may feel left out that we told them first, but we really felt it was the best thing to do. Plus...it was so nice to let our secret out to someone....it's too exciting to keep it to ourselves! :)
At this point we still haven't decided when to tell everyone else. I am 6 weeks along today (I think), and we don't have our first Dr. appointment until Wednesday, February 17th. So....I think we will at least wait until after that appointment to let the cat out of the bag to everyone else. It will be nice to have an exact due date to tell everyone anyway, because as of right now, I can't figure out if it's October 3rd or the 6th. Either way, it'll be very close to a happy 56th b-day present for Grandma Vera!! Oh I can't wait to tell her!!!
Ok, that's all for now.
Hugs and Kisses...
Jeff and Jackie
