happy freakin' mother's day

i always thought i'd tell my mom the news right when i found out

i was going to have a baby.  i ended up waiting ten weeks.  it was tough

to keep the secret at times, but it allowed me to live in denial just a little

bit longer, so all in all it was worth it.  not to mention the way we told

her and the rest of my family was pretty awesome.

 

i made my mom a photo book for mother's day.  it pretty much listed all

of our favorite things about her and told her why we love her so much.  my

dad and sisters knew i was doing this because they helped me gather the pictures,

but they saw it for the first time when she did, and she read it aloud to everyone.

 

 

 

on the last page it said, "...and starting december 3, you'll be the best

grandma in the world."  the picture on that page was a copy of our ultrasound,

which at that point looked like a little kidney bean.  but she kind of read it

under her breath at first, and then said "are you serious?!" and everyone yelled

at her to read it out loud, and then they all started yelling and crying, and giving

me hugs, and patting richard on the back.  and we got the whole thing on video,

which is about the greatest thing in the world.

 

it felt good to have that secret off our chests, but we basically told them all

to keep their mouths shut or we'd never let them see or hold the baby because

we still had to tell richard's family.  which we waited to do until 17 weeks

when we found out that we're having a boy.

 

 

its not that we're not excited.  we're stoked.  but we're also scared slightly

out of our minds.  so it has been nice to take this all one day at a time.  i am

thinking ahead, though, and i realize that next year i'll be a mother on

mother's day...this baby had better not take after his father in the gift-giving

department, or else.