Telling the Family

Yesterday we told our family. I didn't want to announce it this early (I am barely 4 weeks in afterall), but my SIL and her family were in town, and all the important members of his family were in one place, so it meant a lot to W to tell them. SIL was overjoyed, but we didn't get a huge reaction from MIL

After that we drove to my parents' house to tell my dad and stepmom. There was a pause where I think they had to process it, but then they broke out into huge smiles and my stepmom teared up from happiness. Dad wanted to open a bottle of wine in celebration until I reminded him it was unfair I couldn't enjoy. :)

We then traveled a few towns away to have a 'drink' (mine being straight OJ) with my mom. I kept waiting for the right time, but it was so noisy where we were and I didn't know how to just come out with it. But then MIL and her fiance stepped in and W shouted to me "tell her before my mom does!" So I leaned into my mom and blurted "Mom, I'm pregnant!" She lost it -- stunned and amazed and started immediately crying.

So now that it's out there with the family, I am paranoid that we jinxed it and that the pregnancy won't last. Each day that passes that I am pregnant I grow a little more attached and used to this life-changing little mass of cells.