Our Journey!

Andrew and I have met when we were sophomores in high school. It sounds cliché but it was love at first sight! After dating through high school and college we got married and started our lives together as a new family. We said all along that we were going to work on a five year life plan. There were many things we wanted to do in life before we started having children. Since we got married in 2009 we figured a good time to try to start our family would be sometime in 2014. In December of 2013 I decided to stop taking my birth control because I wanted my body to be regulated before I got pregnant. I was told all along that it takes at least a year for your hormones to get back in order. From month to month my periods were all over the place. Lasting 2 days, to 2 weeks to not having one at all. So when I didn’t have a period in June I figured I was still out of sync. Andrew took me on a date on June 14th at TGI Fridays and during dinner I told Andrew that I just didn’t feel right. I remember that conversation like it was yesterday. I asked “do you ever have those days where you just don’t feel right.” I told him that something just felt different. I felt ok, but not good. I figured I was just tired, but then I thought, maybe I should take a test just in case. I told him I think I will wait until July to take a test because I was just tired of wasting them. The next morning, the 15th, I woke up and took a test. I knew I couldn’t wait for the rest of the month to pass by. I went and peed on the stick and just set it down and continued to get ready. After I washed my face and brushed my teeth I decided to look. Expecting it to be negative. Well I noticed this faint plus sign!!! I flung open the cabinets and dug the directions out of the box and it said two lines is negative, one line and one plus sign is positive!!! I opened the door and Andrew was still asleep but I just said baby and I guess he could tell something was up from my tone. He popped straight up and said what’s wrong! I said, while crying, “I think I’m pregnant!” that was the fastest I have ever seen him move! He came running in the bathroom and looked at the test and then just grabbed me and we held each other and cried for what I felt was like an hour! I told him I was scared and looking back I know why I said that. I was more afraid of the morning sickness aspect of pregnancy than the delivery! That might change!