Sharing the greatest joy imaginable

When I got off the airplane and saw Adam, it was SO hard not to tell him. But I wanted the moment to be special...after all, he'd been anxiously awaiting this moment, too. Since I had a good year to think about how I would tell him, I had some ideas. But since I had been out of town, most of my ideas wouldn't work. I had made some frames with the thought of putting ultrasound pictures in them for the grandparents, so that was one option. Of course, Adam immediately suggested we go out to eat...although all I wanted to do was get home and somehow tell him the good news, I had to take him up on the offer so he wouldn't get suspicious. When you try for awhile to get pregnant, days of a cycle become very important to both of you...so he knew the general time frame of when we could test. After what seemed like forever, we finally made it home. I had a special digital test at home I'd been saving for when I told Adam. I quickly took that and immediately it said, "PREGNANT." That was the first time I'd actually seen those words referring to me. I got that test, the baby frame I had made, and a few pregnancy books and put them on the bed. Then I called Adam upstairs, telling him I had brought him back something from Florida (of course I really did bring something back from that trip, but obviously it was there before). When he came in the room, I could see the look of confusion on his face. Then the words on that digital test finally registered. "Are you serious?" was repeated several times. He, too, just couldn't believe it had finally happened. We shared lots of tears of joy that day. We were finally going to have a baby!