Now that the pregnancy is blog official I wanted to write about it thus far, how I found out, & how we told our family & parents. So here is part 1.
I was preparing for a crazy Thanksgiving with the whole
family. I had been cleaning & baking
& cooking & planning & decorating.
Amongst all the commotion of getting everything ready, my parents
took Jack for a quick lunch so I could get some things done in peace. Since it was the holidays & I was planning on consuming wine over the weekend something in the back of my mind told me to take a pregnancy test just in case.
I took the test and went back to washing dishes while I
waited. It was the first pregnancy test I had taken in a while and as I walked into the bathroom
and took a look at the test I honestly couldn’t remember what positive
was (it was an old test that I didn't have the box for). Was it if the line is just as dark
as the control? Or if there were two lines no matter how light or dark? l I couldn’t remember
exactly but there were 2 lines.
I was pretty sure it was positive if I
remembered correctly so I ran to the computer. Once again, our
lives changed in an instant and already I thought of our family of four. My mind went crazy with thinking about Jack
as a big brother and going through the newborn experience, again. Where was anything going to fit in our
house?! I smiled & took a moment
to say a prayer for what was to come and the child that God had blessed us
with.
Boy or Girl? Blonde
or dark? Names? Health? & Nursery? All popped into my head. When was I going to be able to tell Tyler in
the chaos of having everyone around. How
was I going to keep it to myself! The day
went on and it tried to sink in.
The rest of the family arrived and Tyler got off work and it was
crazy as we loaded up the cars & headed to dinner. After dinner, Tyler was insistent on going
out for a drink. He rarely has 4 days
off work and it’s even rarer for us to have a built in babysitter so he was all
about it. He didn’t realize why I wasn’t
so enthusiastic about it (I just wanted a minute by myself with him)! So as we jumped in his truck in the freezing
cold & headed to the bar I looked over at him and said “I took a
pregnancy test today.”
With just my smile he knew what the result was. Shock followed by excitement and then the
question of “Really, did you just tell me this in my truck on the way to the
bar?” Of course, that was never how I
would have told him in regular day life.
Jack would have been involved, there would have been the boots, & a
surprise as he walked in the door after work.
So the week after Thanksgiving that’s just what we did. Jack and I went and picked up a “big brother”
shirt (surreal) and I pulled out all the supplies from when I told Tyler about our first prenancy. The cardboard box, the boots (that I’m
anxiously awaiting to fit Jack), the “Baby Bloomer Coming Soon” card I had
made, and the ribbon.
The next couple of weeks were surreal. The morning sickness had not come (YET...it would soon rear its ugly head).
I often forgot that I was pregnant and then would tell myself to enjoy the
moment before I feel like I’m going to puke at every second of the day. I got all our Christmas shopping done in the next two weeks & then it started...
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