Let’s Begin

So yeah, I found out Memorial Day weekend that I was preggers. I had been trying since January, and had two 25 cycles and then one 26 day cycle. So by either a 25/26 day cycle, I knew I missed my period and took a pregnancy test in a bathroom stall at work during lunch. Was pretty excited, but couldn’t say anything to anyone. I rushed out a little early from work and bought a bib that says, “If you think I’m cute, you should see my Daddy.” and then put the pee stick sticking out of it and laid it on the couch in my husband’s man room.

I told him that our cat Gobi had found something for him. He thought that meant a dead rat or something, but eventually went to look and was overjoyed that it wasn’t a dead animal of some sort – even though our cat has never killed anything in her five years. He teared up and was pretty happy.

I wanted to tell my parents, but they live across the country, so I called them that night – but my father was working super late that night. So I waited till the next day and figured I’d call my mom and have her look at some pictures for me – but then they’d be pictures of Joe with his bib and a cute little graphic I made that said, “Project Baby X has been initiated. Launch date 01.28.09.” But she wasn’t around all day. So we needed to leave – we were going to visit my sister-in-law 5 hrs away so we had to get on the road. So I went ahead and emailed her the pictures and hoped for the best. I finally had to call Mom to see if she was back yet, and sure enough she had already seen the email and left a long message on our other phone. She was very excited. That’s how it all started.