My Family Knows

Today was such a fun day!!  We woke up this morning and I asked Mike if he wanted to go to lunch with my dad since we didn't have school.  He said yes so I called him.  I was on hold for over 5 minutes.  While I was waiting I asked Mike if we were going to tell him today.  He said yes!  I was so happy.  Holding onto such a huge secret from my parents has been so hard.  When he came to the phone he told me that he already had lunch plans.  So I told him that we'd stop by anyways since I hadn't seen him in a while.

We walked into his office and I started thinking about how I was going to nonchalantly close his door, we never close the door unless we're talking about something serious.  I told dad that I needed his help with a project for school.  I told him that I needed to get a picture of us to make a sample of a family project that my students were making.  I said I didn't have any recent pictures of us...which is true.  Here is the result of our picture.

I was really surprised with how speechless my dad was.  I think he's really really nervous about me having twins.  Don't get me wrong, I am too but I think I just have a super optimistic mind.  Will it be difficult?  YES!  Will we get through?  YES!  Dad called Steph into his office since she has been his support system through all of this.  We showed Steph the video that we took.  She was so excited for us.  We started talking about our worries (childcare, college 2 weddings!) but I just know it is going to all be ok!  I told Dad that he was the first grandparent to find out and he had to keep it quiet.  He asked when I was telling Mom and I told him Saturday.  He suggested that I call Mom and tell her I wanted to go to lunch.  I was nervous to do that because I never go see Mom on days off and I thought she would know something was up.  

I called her and she was really excited to go. PHEW!  Of course she started getting very mom like and asked me where I was going to park.  I'm a big girl mom, I can pay for the lot across the street.  I had Mike drive because I was really nauseous.  On our way there I found a pop in my purse, thank GD!  We got to her office and chatted for a minute.  I then gave her the same speech about needed a picture for my class.  It was a lot easier for me to close the door at her office because there is a conference room across the hall with glass doors.  I told her I didn't need these people watching us to take a picture.  Here's our picture...

Of course we both started crying.  We're Gotteiners for crying out loud!  She was so blown away.  She needed to hear every detail and track it on a calendar so she could figure out what she was doing at the time.  The weight that was lifted once I told her felt amazing.  I hate keeping secrets from my mommy!  I told her all about the blog and how the main reason I kept it was because I wanted her to know everything and couldn't believe that I couldn't talk to her.  I told her that I wanted to tell Bob, not her.  I said that if she didn't think she could hold this in until Saturday I'd do it on FaceTime, but I left it up to her.  We had such a great lunch, it warmed my heart to see how happy she was! 

We came home and looked up our flight to Philly.  Mike was in Austin over the weekend and before he left he told me that I might have to book the flight for us, but he never told me to.  So when we looked up the flight it was $900!!!  That is A LOT of money for a less than 36 hour trip home.  Mike was so upset.  I'm really upset for him.  He wants to have the same experience with his family that I had with mine.  Now my parents know and we won't be able to fly out for a month, exactly what we were trying to avoid.  I told him to call his mom and just see what she said about the flight.  She said exactly what Mike thought, it's just too much money.  I wanted to scream into the phone I'M PREGNANT AND WE WANT TO TELL YOU IN PERSON!  But I didn't :).  So now we are going to have to tell Mike's family over FaceTime.  I feel so bad but I know that there is nothing we can do.  It's still going to be exciting.

I told Mike I'd text his mom and tell her that she needed to call or text us when David got home from work because I needed a picture of the 3 of them for my class and showing them how we can communicate through the computer would be cool.  I think she bought it.  Now the problem is there is a snowstorm coming out east and Meichelle was driving to New York this afternoon for a dog show.  She isn't going to be home until tomorrow night.  So now we wait some more.

8:10 PM
So we got to try out how FaceTime would work with Mike's parents tonight.  I got a text from my mom saying that she was dying and needed to tell Bob!  So we did!!!  I was really nervous that he would be offended that we didn't tell him in person but he was so excited.  Getting him to agree to take the picture was a battle that I didn't think I'd have to face.  I gave him the same story about how I needed a picture for school, but Bob wanted to send me one.  He didn't want me to take his picture in a hoodie!  Oy Vey Bob!  This isn't a fashonista moment!!  WE'RE ABOUT TO TELL YOU THAT WE'RE PREGNANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Here it is!!