Surprise Surprise!

Anniversary!

It was our wedding anniversary week so Jarrod and I celebrated at hotel ZaZa, where we got engaged. We decided to nix on gifts because we just bought a house and I’m not a fan of giving gifts on an anniversary right now. I think it takes away from the meaning, and that is our relationship. For the big mega marks, yah I’d appreciate some jewelry to symbolize our love and commitment ;) For most anniversaries though, I told Jarrod I want the best card ever written and a really fun date. So, Jarrod complied and wrote me by far the sweetest card he’s ever written and with that we had a wonderful date at Hotel ZaZa. Anytime Jarrod does something heartfelt, however, he always has to counter it with something funny, which I love of course. So naturally, on the back of the card he writes “Well, it’s been a year already. When we having babies?!.” I think he may have been prompted to write that as I had just taken a Walmart brand early pregnancy test. I had a weird fainting spell two weeks prior and thought that maybe it was a sign I was pregnant. The two pregnancy tests that I took from that were negative, so I tossed the idea out of my mind and stopped worrying. By the time ‘the time of the month’ was supposed to roll around, I thought nothing of it at first as again, I just had verification that I was not. So, my little mind was put at ease. Then, three days went by and still nothing. I’m very regular and have always been consistent once I got to college. I started to stress again so as always, my solution is to go buy a pregnancy test and find out so I can stop worrying. I also don’t like anticipating or guessing outcomes. When I want to know, I’ll find out dangit!

Walgreens trip

Fortunately, I worked, at the time, down the road from a Walgreens. During my lunch break, I thus decided to take a little trip there. I knew Jarrod would eventually find out that I had yet again bought a pregnancy test so I pondered getting cash from the atm. I never did get cash though and just bought the test, super awkwardly I might add from the cashier lady who couldn’t get her scanner to work. I didn’t want to take the test at work, because well yah, that’s awkward, so I took it in the Walgreens bathroom. Within 2 seconds I saw two lines. There it was, two lines and holy crap what does that mean? I thought “Oh, ok it’s two lines, it’s positive, it’s positive, it’s positive, holy cow I’m pregnant!!!. AHHH!” I just sat there stunned for a while then relieved to know I could get pregnant, as that was a worry since I’d been told I have endometriosis. Who knows if that diagnosis was accurate though, hm. Anyway, I felt a sense of warmth knowing there was a little baby inside me. I’d never thought about what it would be like to find out you're carrying a new life inside you. It was a very specfial feeling to say the least. Unforunately, terrifying thoughts did start to enter my mind after feeling blessed. I honestly had no clue what I was supposed to do next or even how we were supposed to raise a person, human being, baby, teenager, ah! I freaked, obviously, so  I immediately went to the vitamins isle. I just sat on the floor stunned, while trying to pick out vitamins for the next 10 minutes.

The big news

It later donned on me that I should probably tell Jarrod. I can’t keep secrets for the life of me, so I didn’t want to wait and called the poor thing at work. I wish I’d told him in person now but my brain wasn’t really working at that time. So, I called the branch number and his relationship teller answered the phone. She really is the sweetest person and asked all how I was doing, how work was etc. It was so hard to not say, “Oh, yah, I’m good and pregnant!” Jarrod answered the phone about three minutes into our conversation so his worker politely hung up the phone. First, I asked him if the call was recorded. After he clarified that it wasn’t, I did a Jarrod and just blurted out that I went to Walgreens, took a test and it’s positive, so, I’m Pregnant! Jarrod’s initial response was “OMG, you’re kidding, you’re kidding?”. Me-“no, I’m not kidding babe”. Jarrod-“Are you serious, are YOU serious, are you SERIOUS, ARE YOU SERIOUS?”. He said ‘are you serious’ in just about as many possible ways as he could. He was shocked to say the least. The positive fluctuation in his voice let me know he was at least excited though J

Mom’s intuition

As I’m in the parking lot, about to leave Walgreens, my mom calls. Of course she’s calling now, I thought. So, I answered the phone and blurted out that I was pregnant. I didn’t know you were supposed to wait to tell parents until after you’re at least 8 weeks. Ha! My mom would definitely pick up something was up a day into pregnancy so regardless of me not knowing the rule, I think that worked out for the best. Her response was “Well, is this good news”? HAHA! She remembers how freaked out she was when she found out she was pregnant with me so it’s hilarious to me that was the first question out of her mouth. I laughed and said “Well, of course it’s good news, but I’m freaking out! I didn’t plan for this to happen until a couple years from now. I can’t take care of myself right now so how am I supposed to take care of another human? Also, what do I do now? Do I call the doctor, what vitamins do I take, when should I feel sick? AHHH!”. Needless to say, I asked her all the questions that had been running through my mind in one breath as I was definitely freaking at this point. She eventually had my sister join in on the call and answer some of my immediate questions. Kathryn had just completed her first rotation with the obygn so she’d seen a couple pregnant women at that point.

Despite being scared out of our minds, Jarrod and I feel so blessed to have this very loved surprise. We've already started to clear out the closet and are thinking of decorating ideas!!! Can't wait to find out whether it's a boy or girl!!