How We Found Out We Were Expecting

I know this is a little late, but this is something I want to remember forever.

I have been on birth control for eight years, The Patch, which I LOVE. I knew exactly when my period would come, on Wednesday at 10:00 on the week of my cycle each month. In October we decided to go ahead and get off of it because we wanted to start trying for a baby in January, and I wanted it out of my system for 3 months before we started to try.

Thanksgiving Break rolls around and I clearly remember Mrs. Acosta at school walking by and saying, "You better get some practice over the break." Which strikes me as hilarious now, knowing when I got pregnant.

So we come back from break and Mrs. Monette looks at me and says, "You weren't on FB much, so I guess we know what you were doing." Which wasn't neccessarily the case, but my family shops the entire week of Thanksgiving!

Well on Monday, December 7th I was suppose to start my period...it wasn't on Wednesday because of getting off my patch. We had a BBSST meeting that day, and I wanted a Sprite SOOOOOOO bad. I don't like sprite, everyone knows I drink Mt. Dew always. I walk to the drink machine and get a sprite and Mrs. Shar looks up at me and says, "Uh-Oh, the only time I have ever craved sprite was when I found out I was pregnant." I explained to her that it couldnt be possible, I had just got off my patch, and so forth.

We have our meeting, and at some point during the day for no reason , Mrs. Monette informs me that I am pregnant. I again tell her NO WAY.

That night I get home and I still haven't started. I really didn't think anything about it because I figured it would be late because of not having my patch. About 8 o'clock I decide that I should just take a pregnancy test. I had one in the bathroom because I have always been one to think I was pregnant, even when I knew I couldn't be. Well this just happened to be a very expensive digital test that my husband told me I better not waste and that I didn't need to take pregnancy tests until I was over a week late. Well, I just had to take one for some reason , so I go in the bathroom and take it. Well, Robyn NEVER walks in the bathroom while I am in there, and of course this night he did. I put the test under the cabinet and listened to him. When he finally left I got it out ready to throw it away because I just knew that I really wasn't pregnant.

I looked at the stick and it says ---PREGNANT......I have always planned how I would tell my husband in a sweet way..well that all went down the drain. I started yelling , "Robyn, ROBYN, ROBYN, come here..OMG OMG OMG." I started shaking all over, I was scared to death at the moment. Robyn walked in and I said, "OMG Robyn, I am pregnant." He looked confused, and I explained that I took the test because everyone at school had told me I was pregnant and I knew he told me not to waste them but it wasnt wasted.

We get in the car and head to the dollar general where we buy 2 more tests. I took all of them and they all came back positive. Once the shock was over, we were sooooo excited. God blessed us more quickly than we could have ever imagined.

We decided to wait to tell anyone until Christmas. For some reason this was no problem for me, the person who can't keep anything from my Mom, Granny, or Shawna. Robyn, on the other hand, he was dying to tell my Momma. He would call her everynight to see when we were meeting for Christmas. I told him she was going to figure out that something was up.

We went to the dr. on Dec. 15th and found out that we did indeed get pregnant over the Thanksgiving Holidays----I guess we didn't need that practice did we, Mrs. Acosta....LOL