the finding out....

Most everyone has heard the story of how we became pregnant so I am not gonna go through that again. I am going to post the picture of all the pregnanacy tests (even though I know some of you have seen it). I took 6 pregnanacy tests because I was convinced that they were "defective". Ben was very patient with me as we went to walgreens once and wal mart twice to get 3 separate boxes, it never occured to me to buy them all at once. Now at this point I am going to give a shout out to my husband (shout out...haha), in some ways I make him better but in a lot of ways he makes me better. We are very complimentary, but what I am referring to right now is that when I freak out, Ben is ALWAYS the voice of calm, he is ALWAYS the voice of reason, and best of all he knows how to deal with me. He knows when I have to spin out of control and he just needs to step back and he also knows when to "put his foot down" and tell me to stop it.

In this particular situation he let me spin to the point of taking 6 tests but I would have continued to buy the store out of boxes and after the 6 he said stop. The very aggravating part of his always calm always reasonable attitude is that he NEVER freaks out, you would think the unexpected pregnancy would at least touch a nerve but nope he never freaked out, never got upset, just sat onthe couch all calm and collected. At moments like this I want to yell "why are you not upset?????" but his answer for that is always "cause there's nothing I can do about it" so irrationally calm.

Anyways without him I would probably still be freaking out and without me....he would never get to witness freaking out. Lucky him!

So I wish that we had the whole pregnancy commercial experience where the test turns positive and the husband and wife embrace, the wife has a single tear roll down her cheek and the husband wipes it away and says "you will be a great mom".

But that is NOT our story, our story will be mommy freaked out and cried (but not good crying) and dad sat on the couch eating chips and saying "hmmm well look at that."