A real surprise

Although we didn't have much time for it to sink it and even to talk about it, neither one of us really knows what to do in this situation. We were trying to figure out how and when to share our happy news. And let's face it I am terrible at keeping secrets. Mike's initial reaction was to wait till after our doctor's appointment which is scheduled for the 8th, which is understandable, can't say I disagree. The emotional part of me that wants to scream it from the rooftop decided we should go ahead and tell Mike's parents. 

My rationale was two fold; one we were going to be the six of us, we don't get to see Mike's brother in person very often and I would have rather told them all together than have to call them on the phone and tell them; and two if anything should god forbid happen, which I pray that it doesn't, I wouldn't want to be alone and we'd need the support of our family with us, I'd want them to know. So by default we decided Friday night would be the night since we'd all be at Mike's parents house for dinner. 

I wanted to do something cute but obviously didn't have a whole lot of time to prepare something creative. On the way to his parents house we ran into Kohl's quick. I was ideally hoping to find a great grandmother frame, my plan was to show his parents what we got his grandmother for her birthday gift (and this was just a ploy, we weren't really telling the rest of his family on Saturday at the party). The only frame they had that worked was a "sneak peak sonogram frame," so we picked that up. 

After we had eaten dinner and we were all sitting at the table, I decided it was time to tell everyone. I asked Mike to get the bag from my purse and then passed the kohl's shopping bag to Dad and said check out what we got for Grandma, so he's looking at the frame, and reading the inscription but absolutely not putting two and two together, so I tried to drop more hints like "our picture isn't ready yet" finally Dad gave the frame to Mom to look at but she wasn't getting it either. 

Stephanie was sitting there saying "I think I know what is going on here but I don't want to say anything." They really weren't getting it, so finally I said Stephanie please tell them, and Stephanie said "I think what Rachel is trying to tell you is she's having a baby!" Finally then they realized what was happening and were beyond excited to know they're going to be grandparents! It was pretty funny going through that whole thing. For the record though both of them missed the fact that the frame has an actual sonogram picture in it, LOL. Now I have to figure out how I will tell my parents this weekend! Also my in-laws have been sworn to secrecy in the meantime! This will be one tough secret to keep!!!