The Beginning

How this whole thing got started......

Finding out I was actually for real 100% pregnant was almost as much of a shocker as it wasn’t. Does that sound right? When women say that they know they are pregnant BEFORE they know they are pregnant, they aren't always wrong. I just knew.

I kept jokingly telling Devin that I was pregnant and he kept urging me to take a pregnancy test to prove it, but I was scared to see either outcome. On May 6th, I drove home from work on a mission. I know most people say “taking a HPT in the morning is the best time!”, well it was 5:00 p.m. and I was not about to wait until morning, so upon arriving home, I got brave and took my first HPT.

Because no one ever believes the first test, I quickly tore open another test. 2 tests and 4 pink lines later, I was pacing around the house saying-yelling, “holy (insert choice word that starts with an ‘s’ here)” over and over again, literally. WHO did I call? WHAT should I do? No freaking way...

I was just as nervous as I was excited to tell Devin the news. I would have loved to have waited until May 11th and surprise him on our 1 year anniversary but that was not about to happen, my head would have exploded! I decided to use our notes/vacation countdown whiteboard on the fridge to announce the news. Complete with multiple pee sticks because if you didn't pee on a stick, did it really happen?

Devin walked in the house and immediately walked right by the fridge, (why would he have reason to look?) and asked if we were going for a walk. I replied like a fool who can't keep a secret, “only if you look at the whiteboard!”. The moment he read the words and saw the tests, he dropped his work bag and hugged me so tight with tears of excitement in his eyes.