The Cat's Outta the Bag!

Well, Aimee couldn't hold out any longer. She was hoping her Mother Beth would get the surprise in her Mother's Day card, but its been 4 days and the card still hasn't made it to its destination (a small town in Colorado). So after church today she broke down and called to give her the news, and she was ecstatic.

We have been excited about it and of course we want to tell people, but I wasn't sure how to handle it. You hear so much about pregnancies ending in miscarriage, especially in the first 12 weeks (80%), so part of you wants to spare people of those extra roller-coaster emotions if the unfortunate were to happen. I guess this is why I've heard its typical to wait 3 months, but 3 months is a long time!

So we're letting our family know first of course, then our friends. Our biggest challenge is our co-workers though (we work together at the same company.) This is mainly because our office is like one big family, which is great, but they don't want Aimee to go anywhere anytime soon, so they probably won't take the news well that we are planning to have her stay home. Needless to say we need to be careful how the news comes out at work, because even though Aimee may have the capability of working from home, that's not something we want to agree to before we even know how this baby thing is going to work for us at home!

So for all who are reading this, please pray for a healthy and normal pregnancy for Mom and baby, and please also pray for our finances to stretch to accommodate trying to live off of one income, along with the extra expenese of course.