The revelation

We told our parents and siblings the day before Thanksgiving, my mother’s birthday. We had decided, even though it was still early in the pregnancy, to tell the extended family (aunts and uncles and cousins) on Thanksgiving Day, but wanted to give our immediate families a heads up before hand. We were in Birmingham that night, so we called my parents on the phone. They happened to be in the grocery store when I called, so I had to try and tell them while they were checking out. It was all very weird and not very fun. I was trying to tell them at the same time, so I wanted them to put the phone on speakerphone, but they couldn’t figure out how to work it; neither of them had their glasses out and therefore could not see the keys, and they ended up hanging up on me once. Then when I finally did them both on speakerphone and told them, it took my repeating it several times for them to actually hear me. Now, my parents are really not as blind and hard of hearing as this makes them sound. This is proved by the fact that when we called my brother and his wife right afterward, we went through nearly the exact same process.

Since we were at Andrew’s parent’s house that night, we told them in person. Everyone was ecstatic and elated and teased us for letting it happen so soon.