This is Really Happening

Let me preface this blog by saying that yes my husband and I did go to art school. We both went to SCAD and lets face it if you choose to make art your thing in life you never really grow out of being a kid. Like oh my god is that glittered chalk!? You get the point...

Anyway there currently are no art school kids' kids. But the plan is to have them!

Speaking of that two weeks ago I found out I was pregnant. WHAT?! Ya know that moment when you miss that lovely womanly time that you're supposed to get every month and you do a little freak out? Well even if you are somewhat trying or "not, not trying" as we like to say, you still have that little freak out. Like oh my god did it really happen this fast? Is it for real? Well after taking two home pregnancy tests that day and another the next day it seemed to really be for real.

By the way be sure to read the small text on those booklets that come with the tests. Even if one of the lines is SUPER faded it's still for real!

The first thing I did was start googling things. Who doesn't? Can I do this, can I do this...? You get the picture. Then I started googling when the heck you actually go in and have a real doctor's appointment. Most sites said wait until 8 weeks. Well I decided come the next weekday I was going to call my normal doctor just in case. I got an appointment for later that week. Of course I took another home pregnancy test the day before just to make sure yet again if "this is really happening".

Then I started googling more. "Don't tell anyone until 12 weeks because you might have a miscarriage and that's embarrassing to tell everyone". Great advice, but I suck at keeping secrets. So of course I ended up telling one of my best friends two days later. She was visiting from California so clearly this would be the only time I could tell her in person so I might as well tell her right? Well it went well, but of course I knew I needed to try to keep it a secret still. 

For the record if you go to a normal doctor for a guaranteed test of being pregnant it's pretty boring. Here go pee in a cup. Here go take a blood test. Okay great so the normal doctor says I'm pregnant. That makes it real right? Well it made it somewhat more real.

So we decided at this point maybe we should tell our parents. Telling my parents was pretty casual. Few questions and some comments. But they already knew we were "not, not trying". Telling my husband's mom was a little different she had no idea we were "not, not trying". She told us she was going to run around the house after hanging up the phone. She was definitely SUPER EXCITED! She told us she would wait awhile until she started buying stuff just in case we didn't make it till 12 weeks.

By the way how depressing is that. Try to keep it a secret, try not to get too excited, it might not last. Well as I said me and secrets don't work out very well. Last Friday we went bowling with friends and of course everyone kept asking why I wasn't drinking. My "I have a headache" excuse didn't work very well with 4 of my best friends. Everyone was happy though once we announced the news and in the end I got a referral for my friends OBGYN to make my first "real" appointment. So that's coming up in a couple weeks. I can't believe I have to wait until 9 weeks!

Okay that's enough of me chatting for now. Now time to attempt to keep this secret a little longer!