October 15, 2005

I've decided today (Nov. 17, 2006) to start an online journal (blog) to share my daughter's life with all her friends and family. This will also be a fun way for her to look back at her life as she grows up. It will also be a special way for Jason and I to remember our journey as her parents. So here is how it all begin, right from the beginning...well kinda...you can use your imagination for how it all started!!! :)

Today was not only my niece Jaelyn's first birthday, but it was the day Jason and I found out that we were going to be parents. It was a Saturday morning...I got up out of bed at 7 am because I couldn't sleep. I was feeling a lot of abdominal pain and since I was 4 days late I was anxious to know why??? So I got up and let Makinac and Molokai out to go to the bathroom and took a pregnancy test. It immediately read POSITIVE! I was shocked, was it really positive. I looked at the test to double check... it was really early maybe I was just dreaming. The past 3 months were disappointments...could this month really be different?

I had to wake Jason up!

I quietly returned to bed and laid down next to Jason. He apparently heard me and asked if everything was alright...since it was odd I was up so early on the weekend and he was aware of my cramping. I eagerly replied...I'm pregnant! Jason didn't believe me, "Are you serious?" "Yes, I took a pregnancy test and it's positive!" I said. That's when he asked, "What do we do now?"

Well this blog will tell you...

Jason and I couldn't fall back asleep so we decided to call our friends and neighbors, Mike and Marnie Schmidt, to go out for breakfast. They had just told us they were pregnant the week before. We shared our news with them but decided to not tell anybody else until we were through the first trimester.