WOW! I just kept staring at that stick. I'm not sure I blinked for several minutes. It was a moment I had dreamed of for years (more like a lifetime), and here it was! Not much makes me speechless (if you know me well, you know that's true), but I definitely was. Although I try to look at glasses being half full instead of half empty, I'll admit that, in this case, I started thinking of all the reasons that this was a false positive. After what seemed like hours, I casually walked into the living room where Jason was playing with Harrison and Lynley. (He told me up front that he did not want to know when I took the test. I guess he couldn't take the nerves.) I showed him the test, and he just looked at me with a smirky grin, as if he knew it all along. While I was trying to figure out how I could get a false positive, Mr. Pierce had already convinced himself that we were pregnant.
Although Jason believed all of this, he made it very clear that he didn't want to tell anyone yet...until it was confirmed by my doctor. Since it was Good Friday and a holiday weekend, that wasn't going to happen until at least the next week. We agreed that we could tell our parents, but no one else. We'd been the route of telling people we were pregnant with twins and then having to tell that we lost one. If at all possible, we didn't want to travel that road again! Needless to say, it was traumatic!
I visited a friend that afternoon who had just had a baby. Since we were totally traveling in unknown territory, Jason told me to ask her (and only her) what to do now. How long do you wait to call the doctor? Can this be a false positive? I was absolutely bursting at the seams to tell someone. When I told her well into our visit, her reaction was priceless. Hey, this was fun! She assured me that false negatives can happen, but rarely do false positives happen. Although most people wait a little longer before going to the doctor, under these circumstances, she thought it would be perfectly fine to call on Monday. That was the plan, then, but how in the world was I going to hold it in until the next week?
I'm pretty sure nothing could have wiped the grin off my face. Was this real? Could this really happen? I'd been told many times of people it happened to, but this was us, after all! We'd had to work (and I mean REALLY work) for the two precious kiddos we have.
You know what they say about "best laid plans"? They "often go astray"! Well, we INTENDED to keep this news to ourselves. That night was the Good Friday service at church. We told Jason's parents before we left and they thought we were adopting. Hahahaha! You see, this was the furthest thing from anyone's mind, including the Pierces! When we got to church and started seeing all of our closest friends, our intentions went out the window. I'll never forget that night as long as I live. We got a variety of reactions...tears, mouths that were gaping WIDE open, laughs (my mom included), etc... I'm pretty sure through telling the news, God was smiling and so was I!!!! Fun times!
I couldn't get totally excited (although I was pretty close) until it was confirmed by my OBGYN the following week......
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