The Reveal!

Keeping the fact that we were pregnant a secret was REDICULOUSLY hard!! I just couldn’t hold on to the secret for very long! After our first ultrasound I just HAD to tell my Mom. Josh and I went to the dollar store after leaving my sisters place, and bought four soothers. I already had an idea of how I wanted to tell the parents.

We got to my Mom’s house and made conversation while we were waiting for her hubby Bob to get there. I wanted to tell them both together. When Bob finally arrived we all sat down at the kitchen table, Bob across from my Mom and Josh across from me. I told them to close their eyes and asked Mom to put out her hands. She gave me ‘the mom look’ and said “I don’t like closing my eyes and putting out my hands” I decided to borrow Nike’s slogan and told her to ‘Just Do It’ I placed a soother in her hands and let them open their eyes. Mom kept looking from what was in her hand to me and back again, I think she was kind of in shock as no one was aware that we were even trying. Bob congratulated us and Mom opened her mouth to speak, I held my hand up and said “Wait! Bob, you’re going to need one too.” Now it was Bob’s turn to be shocked! My mom caught on right away and jumped up screaming, “You’re having twins?!” She was so excited she couldn’t contain herself.

Seeing my Mom react the way she did made me even happier that we were pregnant! I have wanted to give her that news for years, but the opportunity had not yet presented itself until I met my love Josh.

Mom immediately wanted to call my Nanny and picked up the phone, beginning to dial while still throwing out ideas of how I should tell Nanny. Once the line was answered Mom handed me the phone after the shortest conversation I have heard between those two! I started the conversation off as usual, asking how my Nanny was and what was new. Then I used my mom’s idea and asked her what she thought about having great grandbaby 14 and 15. The squeal of joy that came through was almost deafening! Nanny was so happy to hear that we were expecting! Each person that found out was making me more and more happy about everything.

Our next stop was to tell Josh’s parents. After telling my Mom, he just couldn’t hold it back either! It’s nice to be with a man that has the same crazy issues that I do! Josh told me I had to tell them because I did it so well at my Mom’s place. I called him a chicken!

I had to think a little bit on how I wanted to tell his parents because we had just learned that his sister was pregnant as well, so I wanted to incorporate her pregnancy into our news as these three would be their first grandchildren. While standing in the kitchen I asked Debbie and Dave if they were the kind of people that dipped their toe in the water to check it out or did they just jump right in? Dave piped u and said that Debbie was the dip your toe in type but he would just jump right in. So I pulled out a soother and said “Okay, here you go Dave,” and placed it on the counter. They both started laughing, but didn’t say anything....yet. Then I pulled out the other soother and told Debbie there was one for her too. Finally Debbie found her words and said, “Are you trying to tell us something?” So I responded, “Yeah, we are having twins!” Her jaw dropped and she said, “What?!?” Now it was our turn to laugh! Dave was even funnier, Josh to this day says that he has never seen his Dad like that. Dave was puttering around the kitchen and every five or so minutes he would look over at us and nervously laugh. The shock value that twins have is incredible!

I didn’t get a chance to tell my Dad and his wife before he read it on my Facebook wall. You see, my Dad and I haven’t been the closest and I was having trouble getting a hold of him to tell him our big news, then he added me to Facebook. To those of you reading this, that may seem small, but I don’t think he will truly understand just how much that meant to me. Of course I would have preferred it if I told him and not Facebook, but having that connection that we can build on once more means the world to me!

I would like to thank those of you who have given me feedback about my first post and encourage anyone to let me know what they think. This is the first time I have done anything like this and I can tell you, writing my first novel was easier than letting the world know how I am feeling every step of the way in this journey!

Our BIG Surprise!

My name is Jennifer and my fiancé Josh and I are currently expecting twins! It was a very big surprise to the two of us, but it is one that we are unbelievably happy about!

Our adventure began May 17^th 2011. Josh was putting a movie on for us to enjoy and I believe he looked at me funny, and I just started screaming at him! He was flabbergasted and did not understand at all what I could possibly be so mad at. Feeling, at that point, completely justified, his lack of understanding or remorse brought me to tears. I left the room and lay down in bed crying as though I had lost someone close to me.  Josh was at a loss, he could not understand the rollercoaster that I was on, so he just wrapped his arms around me and tried to comfort me. At one point in the whole ordeal Josh asked me if I was pregnant, and I very assuredly snapped back “No!”

The next morning he headed off to work and I slept in. I was sure I was going to do absolutely nothing for the day. After the night before I was exhausted! I had a pregnancy test in the bathroom as we had thought we were pregnant before, so I decided, “I’m going to show him! I’ll prove to him I’m not pregnant!” I took the test and left it on the counter for the required three minutes. I then proceeded to find an interesting television show to start off my morning. After finding the show, I walked back into the washroom and stopped dead in my tracks. I believe the first words out of my mouth were, “What the hell is that?” I was ecstatic! But at the same time completely shocked!

I walked back out into my living room still trying to comprehend the test results. I picked up the phone and called my sister. She went crazy! She was so happy and excited for us she could hardly contain it. She then, in a protective little sister tone, told me I needed to go and see a doctor to have them confirm it! After calling one of my closest and dearest friends Peggy, who sweetly took the day off to come with me, we headed to the clinic. What do you know? Another positive test! She sent me for blood work and advised I call my family doctor to make an appointment.

So on the evening of May 18^th 2011 I gave Josh a gift when he came home from work. I told him it was to apologize for my crazy emotional crisis the day before. When he opened the box there was a coffee cup inside with a child-like drawing of a man and under his feet it said “New Dad” he was so happy, but also mentioned that it explained an awful lot!

I made a doctor’s appointment the following week for May 24^th. After a brief discussion with my doctor, followed by a lecture about not tracking my periods, the receptionist made an appointment for an ultrasound the next day to date my pregnancy. The technician was really cold and didn’t say hardly anything to us. Josh was standing behind him, so when the technician did finally speak I could not see what Josh’s reaction was. The technician asked, “Do twins run in your family?” I told him “No” because at that point I wasn’t aware of any twins in our family! He replied with “oh yeah,”....oh yeah??????? That’s all you have to say after a comment like that????? So I piped up, “Why?....Are we having twins?” The reply I got was “I think so.” I think so????? Really???? My heart was pounding! He showed me each of our little dots and unexpectedly turned on the sound for the heartbeat! I still couldn’t see Josh! I wondered what he could be thinking. I had joked about having twins and he always told me to cut it out, what could be going through his mind?

Finally the technician left and I sat up and looked at Josh. He just smiled and said “Honey, I’m happy!” I burst into tears yet again! This crying thing has passed getting old at this point, but I could not help it. Once again Josh just held me until I calmed down. Carrying the pictures of our dots we left.

My next appointment was on June 21^st. Learning that I had twins, my doctor started talking about going to an OBGYN early. Now that was an ordeal! I got the name of a doctor from my friend Peggy, so that’s who I requested. I haven’t had the best of luck with doctors over the years, so having the name of someone who came very highly recommended made me feel better. Two days later I called my doctors office and asked if they had heard anything back. I was then told I had an appointment on August 19^th at 9am with a doctor that was not even close to the name I had provided! I was not pleased! The conversation began to go down the drain from there. I said to the receptionist, “That’s not the name I gave you,” her reply was “this is the name they sent back.” Are you kidding me? So I said, “That’s great, but I asked for this doctor for a reason, this new guy I don’t know from a hole in the ground!” the reply made my jaw drop! “Well he works with this doctor and this doctor and they are really great!” (Names not mentioned because I honestly can’t remember them!) I couldn’t believe it! So by association this guy must be good!

It turned out to be great though as my new doctor is fantastic! He is up front and honest as well as knowledgeable. I can’t wait until the next time I see him. We go back on August 5th for our check up. Right now we are going every two weeks. A bit later it will be every week and then everyday!! At that point I should just start living at the hospital!

We are happy to say we are currently 15 weeks and 2 days along in our journey! We can't wait to really feel our little ones moving around! These are our first children and we couldn't be more thrilled!

I would like to thank you for taking the time to read my story; I will be updating this blog as the new and interesting information starts rolling in! And as soon as I have a new ultrasound picture I will upload it for everyone to enjoy!