A Whole New World

On October 12, 2009, 2 days before Josh and I were to celebrate our 2 year anniversary, our lives were forever changed....

For the past few months, we had both been 'throwing' around the idea of adding to our family. Still feeling like kids ourselves, we knew that if it happened, we would prepare ourselves, yet neither of us could completely convince ourself that we were 'ready.'

What is 'ready'? In literal terms, its being 'completely prepared or in condition for immediate action or use or progress.' As prepared as one may try to be, how do you truly prepare for raising a precious littly baby when you've never done it before.

Well, little did we know, that on this day, 10/12, our life as we knew it, would no longer be the same!

As always, Josh woke up that morning and hopped in the shower, as much as I'd like to say I was up, hard at work in the kitchen, preparing an AM cuisine for the 2 of us to partake in, I was still in bed, sleeping through the alarm radio.

After getting dressed and then kindly scrounging for my cell phone, then laying it gently beside me, Josh gave me a kiss goodbye and was on his way to start his week at work. After a few more minutes of pretending to sleep, I finally hopped out of bed and as most of the population does first thing in the morning, I entered the lavatory to relieve myself. It was halfway through this morning ritual that on a hunch I stopped, held it, and opened the bathroom drawer to find an unused pregnancy test. I opened it, followed the instructions, finished the job, and then went about my morning preparations.

After a few minutes (and almost forgetting about the test) I went to check on the results, thinking that it would be the same as any other day or time. To my surprise, I saw one DARK pink line and parallel to it was a very faint, and slow forming lighter line....could it be?

Needless to say, immediately I called Josh and asked him to meet me for lunch. It was in the second booth from the back of the restaurant near the servers station that I commenced to prop open a menu and stand it up on the table. I did this in order to discreetly announce the news to Josh via the test I'd taken earlier that morning.

Josh was proud....immediately he was proud, as if we already had birthed the child and he/she had finished their first day of kindergarten!


That evening, we told both sets of "future" grandparents who needless to say, were elated!