Will and I talked the rest of the night on Dec. 20th after we got the positive results. But, when I say 'talked', we really just asked ourselves a ton of questions, realized we were getting way ahead of ourselves and agreed we'd just take it one day at a time. We fell asleep easily and slept the entire night. So, I'd say we handled the news pretty good. I've never been one to let anything get in the way of my sleep but the fact that Will slept the whole night through confirmed for me that we were ready and would be fine. It took us all of about 3 hours to move from feelings of 'how are we going to handle this...this is not the plan' to disbelief to total excitement. At the end of the day, we were thankful we were able to get pregnant. We worried that we'd have trouble getting pregnant once we did decide to start trying - I think that's a normal concern. Although this was not "our plan", it was in fact our plan... just one we weren't controlling. It was humbling.
We told our close family the following weekend while we were home for Christmas. We spent Christmas with Will's family this year. We got to Cindy and Otho's house on Friday night. Jill and Matt were already there and Grandma and Grandpa were also there from Illinois to spend Christmas with us. Wade and Jenni were on their Costa Rica trip but, we told them before they left (thanks Wade for keeping the secret). I was SO nervous and Will could hardly wait to tell. Everyone knows how I love my "Wine Fridays" so because we were waiting for the perfect timing, I had to brush off the 'do you want some wine?' question four times. Jill once, Cindy once and Otho twice. I made up some lie about being really tired and I should wait til dinner to start drinking anything. I'm surprised that worked but it did. So, as we were finishing up dinner, Will grabbed a gift I had wrapped and said he had one gift he wanted to go ahead and give his parents before Christmas day (we wrapped up one of our positive pregnancy tests in a Christmas gift bag). Cindy opened it and thought it was just going to be one of Will's practical jokes. She was scared to open it. She FINALLY pulled out the zip lock bag it was in, threw it down on the table and then almost had a heart attack. Jill said 'ARE YOU SERIOUS!!!!!' and Otho got teary and I think said 'that... is....wonderful'. I busted out in tears I think because of all the nerves that had built up that day.
We drove to Pinehurst on Monday morning to spend the week with my family. Mom planned a post-Christmas dinner for Monday night and we planned to exchange gifts after dinner. Mom & Dad, April & Harry, Emily, Sharon & Sarah and Grandmother would all be there. For the second time, I got SO nervous but was so excited to finally share the news. It had been SO wierd and hard to withhold such big news from my mom for nearly a week b/c I talk to her every day and tell her just about everything. It was nearly painful for me but I definitely wanted to tell them face-to-face. So, after dinner we moved into the living room for gifts and Dad was especially excited and in a great mood to have all his girls and family home for a while. He made the comment in an excitable, almost joking tone 'oh this is gonna be a great year, I can feel it... next year at this time I'm going to have grand-babies'. I must have looked at him like 'if you only knew haha'. The last gift to open was the little bag for mom and dad with the positive pregnancy tests. Mom and dad were sitting next to eachother on the couch and everyone else was watching on... they pulled it out and mom said 'oh cool a toothbrush'. She knew it wasn't a toothbrush but did not yet know what it was... they put their glasses on and two seconds later mom had a look of shock on her face and dad was jumping up and down. Sarah and April were both really excited and surprised. I tell them everything too and they knew Will and I were waiting for a while before we had kids etc. etc. And Grandmother said 'Oh I'm so glad I was here for this'. It was a good night. I don't think my mom made a full sentence until the next day. :)
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