...and then came baby

Ben and I decided on our wedding night that we would start "trying".  WHAT????  I have no earthly idea what we were thinking.  Was it age...was it the moment...was it that we were truly ready?  Is anyone ever truly ready for children?  I don't know what we were thinking outside the fact we had just gotten married, were in our hotel room...on our wedding night and it seemed like a great idea at the time.  I do know in our minds we had sort of told ourselves that maybe it wouldn't happen right away so start early and enjoy the time we would have together while we did.

Well....it seems God had big plans for us and sooner than we thought as 3 months almost to the day we got married we were expecting our first baby.  To say I was over the moon is an understatement!  Ben was very happy....excited...scared....and I think in a little disbelief it had happened as quickly as it did.

I was actually about to have lasik eye surgery and had a pre-op appointment on Thursday, March 9th prior to my surgery which was scheduled that following Monday.   Dr. Rashid asked me if I was pregnant and of course I say no (not knowing) but shared that we were trying.  He said we should hold off on trying until a few months after my surgery as hormones can changed eye sight so he wouldn't get accurate results if I did in fact get pregnant right after surgery.  I was a little disappointed at the thought of waiting but I also knew it would be great to no longer wear contacts/glasses.  My idea was that I would be able to get up in the middle of the night to see our baby without having to reach for glasses or go to bed with my contacts on which I had done so many times.  I left that appointment on the 28th day of my cycle and knew that I would be starting any minute.  I also left very excited for my upcoming surgery that Monday.

Ben was in Houston at a gig that Thursday so it was just me at home.....this is very important as it seems to be a theme for our pregnancies.  I am writing this in 2016 as I have only been blogging about 3 years.

The next morning, Friday, March 10, 2006 I got up to get ready for work.  It was 6am.  I realized when I got up that I had not started yet.  The only real reason this stuck out in my mind was because Dr. Rashid did share that I obviously could not have the surgery if in fact I was pregnant.  I certainly didn't think I was...no symptoms...well no symptoms of anything...pregnancy or otherwise.  I happened to have a test at home from the couple of months prior and decided I should take one for giggles.  DRUM ROLL PLEASE......

IT WAS POSITIVE!!!!!  It took no time for that plus sign to show up and I was not even officially late yet.  I could not believe it and couldn't wait to get Ben on the phone.  I called him and of course he was sleeping as he had gotten in late from his gig...so to say the least it didn't really sink in.  I got a "really? that's great."...HA!  I figured it was best to hang up and let that sink in for a bit.  It did and when he really woke up and the fog cleared he called me confirming that what he thought he heard was in fact correct.  YAY!  We were going to have our first baby!

I knew that the unofficial "rule" was to wait until you are 12 weeks to share the news but I couldn't.  I called my parents immediately and told them.  They lived in Baton Rouge at the time and they were so excited!!!!  I got to work and shared the news with a close friend there and realized the timing may have been a little awkward as I had only been working there for 3 months.

Ben got home later that day and I had taken another test which obviously also came out positive but I wanted to share that moment with him!

So it begins.....no longer a family of 2...which lasted all of 4 months...but now becoming a family of 3!  Boy?  Girl?