I'll Have Water For Now

This has been a crazy week for BJ and I. Now that we are pregnant, we are trying to decide when we should tell our family and friends. I'm only 5 weeks so I feel like it's really early to tell anyone. We are going for our initial doctor's visit and ultrasound on December 18th. That seems like forever to wait to tell! We liked the idea of waiting until Christmas, and letting our parents open a picture of the baby as a gift. That all sounds great in theory, but Christmas is still a long ways away to hide something so big. With the Iron Bowl next week and many Christmas parties coming up, it's going to be very difficult to drink water without being noticed. We still had not decided on when or how we are going to tell, but we certainly weren't ready to do so tonight.

Tonight BJ, Aubrey, Ann Taylor, Hal, Kimberly, and I went to eat dinner at Ruby Tuesday (totally random choice for us). As we sat down and began to order drinks, I told the server "I'll have water for now" trying to play it off as though I would order a different drink later. After the server walked away Kimberly immediately called me out. She said "Are you Pregnant?!?!" I looked at her and Ann Taylor and turned bright red. I began sweating profusely and got really uncomfortable before replying, "No, I'm just tired and have a headache so I'll just have water for now." It was so obvious that I was not telling the truth. Kimberly then replied, "Well you didn't do anything last night, and tonight you are drinking water so I think you are." Ann Taylor seconded her comment by telling me she thought something was up when they saw us at Rosie's last night, and I was going home instead of going to hear an awesome band that I love. As much as I wanted to hide it, I completely crumbled and told them that yes I am indeed preggers. It was hard to tell them because I'm the first in our group of friends to get pregnant, and BJ and I are still not comfortable with everything. I feel so much better now that the cat is out of the bag, but I feel terrible that they found out (or got it out of us) before we could tell our families. It was such a great feeling to hear all of the positive and encouraging things our friends had to say. BJ and I have been very scared and nervous so it's great to know that we have friends that are so supportive. We are going to need lots of prayers, encouragement, guidance, advice, and positive feedback through this pregnancy. Now, we have to tell the family.....SOON! And then we will announce it to the rest of our friends. After that, I will let my blog go live so everyone that wishes can keep up with the pregnancy updates.