Telling Our Parents

Andrew's Dad came into town on a planned trip the day after we found out we were expecting and Andrew could not wait to tell him.  I was a little worried because I knew Andrew's Mom would not be with Dad and I thought she might get upset about not finding out in person but we were not going to be in Myrtle Beach until Christmas and we couldn't wait until then!  So Andrew came up with a great idea, he would Skype call his mom and that way we could still see her even though she could not be with us.  Andrew told his mom some story about wanting to buy a tablet so he wanted to try out Skype to see which tablet he was going to buy.  So Mom got on Skype when Dad got here at 11 p.m. and we gave Dad an envelope and small gift.  Dad offered for Mom to open it but she said he could do it.  The card said, "Here is something your house will need for our visit next summer." and then he opened the gift which was a small pack of outlet covers.  He showed them to mom and said, "They're outlet covers, something you would need for children." Then, he looked at Andrew and I and asked, "Are you trying to tell us something?"  We responded, "Yes!"  He got up to hug us and Mom was screaming over Skype in excitement while also saying "This is not fair, I can't hug anyone!"  They were both very excited and began praying immediately!

My Mom was the next person we talked too.  We were going out of town that weekend so we had to see her before we left so we set up a weeknight dinner in Annapolis.  She joined us for dinner at Chevy's.  When she got there we gave her a card and the small wrapped gift.  Her card read, "Here is something your house will need next spring." As soon as she read it she looked at me and said "Is this something for a baby?"  She knew right away without even opening the gift.  I said, "Yes" and we all hugged and then she went back and opened her gift.  Some might say mother's intuition but she had a few clues to help her figure out our big news.  First, we had seen her the week before I took the pregnancy test for a concert and she offered me a glass of my favorite wine which I declined because I was 3 days late.  Which could of meant anything at that point but I was being cautious.  Then a week later we asked her to dinner in the middle of the week, so she was slightly suspicious and right!

Next was my Dad and step mom.  We had dinner with them the night we got back from our weekend trip.  They met us for dinner at P.F. Chang's.  We were a few minutes late and Dad and Molly were enjoying drinks so when we got there and moved to a table I handed Dad his card which said, "This is something your house will need next spring."  As soon as he read the card Molly just looked across the table at us and then back at Dad.  He then opened the outlet covers and Molly started freaking out.  Dad was still looking at the outlet covers in a confused way when Molly finally said, "Are you pregnant?" and my Dad stopped, looked up at me waiting for a response and when I said "Yes" they were like, "Really? Oh my goodness!"  They were excited, gave out hugs, and they all celebrated with sparkling wine!  I drank ginger-ale from a champagne flute!

It was fun getting to tell Grandpa, Grandma, Nanna, Poppy, and Naoni.  I would say most of them were very thrown off by our news because I don't think they were expecting it quite yet.  But they were all very very excited!!