Telling My Parents in Vancouver, BC

Back during Easter time, I made decorative Polish Easter eggs called "pysanki".  Eggs are a strong religious symbol of life in the Catholic/Polish religion so it seems appropriate. Well, my mom wanted me to bring them sometime so that she could see them in person. So we arrived in Richmond, BC at my parent's house on Friday night around 10:30pm.  My mom, dad, and sister were in the livingroom.  After we got settled, I gave one egg to my mom, one egg for my dad, and one egg for my sister to examine and marvel at my work! LOL!  Then I  said, "You know, maybe next year you guys can come down to Portland to spend Easter with us....you know, we can make pysanki, go to the Polish Church to bless them, you can play with the dogs, I will show you around, you can help us with the baby...." I started to tear up....

Needless to say....they didn't get it!  They just smiled and remained quiet.  I had to say, "No, I'm already pregnant and the baby is due mid April!"  Then I grabbed my home pregnancy tests to show them proof!!  My mother, father, and sister all began to tear up and hugged both Chad and I.  Afterwards, they said that they thought that I was talking in future-tense, as if I would be hoping to fall pregnant by April!  They didn't want to upset me because they saw me tearing up!

We snapped these photos right after we told them the wonderful news!  My father got a bottle of Cognac and they all had a shot in my honor (not me of course!).  He said he was saving this bottle for a special occasion!