Telling Our Families

Okay, I know I promised months ago that you'd get more pregnancy updates. Sorry I've been so slow! I promise I'll try and do better. As promised, here is how we told our families:

The first family member we told was my sister, Sarah. Let's be honest, there was no way I was capable of waiting to tell her. So, she found out the day after I took the first pregnancy test. Jacob wanted me to wait until after we had a blood test to confirm, but when I found out she was having a horrible day, I knew I had the perfect way to cheer her up. After she actually understood that I was saying I'd taken a pregnancy test that was positive, I was little surprised when she said "Hold on, don't go anywhere" and disappeared from the other side of the phone. But when she came back on, she explained that she'd had to run downstairs where she could scream without waking her kids up. Then, since my sister knew, I sent my brother a text a few days later and also told him. I figured it wasn't fair for only one of my siblings to know.

After that, we waited until Christmas to tell the rest of our families. My parents spent this Christmas up in Washington with Sarah's family. So, before we video chatted with them on Christmas morning, we had them read an email from us that ended with "we can't wait until next Christmas when all 13 of us will be together." It was a very vague clue because as far as they knew, there were currently 12 people in the family. Since it was fairly vague, we had Matt on standby to say something like "wait, there are only 12 of us." My dad claims he was already starting to count in his head when Matt spoke up, but I guess we'll never know. Apparently my parents were too impatient to wait until we were going to video chat in a couple of minutes, because they both grabbed their phones to call me. Dad won out and (crying, as I totally called that he would) simply asked if it was true. After I talked briefly on the phone, we did eventually video chat and I was able to give them some more info on their coming grandchild.

Telling Jacob's parents was hilarious. Jacob was determined to be clever with our announcement but not just with something that was obviously an announcement and easy to figure out. So, we planned carefully. We spent Christmas with them and were there a couple of nights. The first night after they went to bed, we put a 64 oz bottle of Prego sauce on their counter for them to discover in the morning. They spent the entire next day coming up with crazy theories of where and who it had come from. They still didn't get it when they found their DVD player paused on the Pixar short about storks. However, they finally caught on when they found a hot dog bun in their oven. And we thoroughly enjoyed giving them a hard time about how long it took them to catch on.

I'm going to try to post more often, so next up, look for a post on how my first trimester went.