By mid-January I could start to tell that something was going on with my body. By lunchtime everyday my body was exhausted. My coworker was constantly asking me what was wrong and telling me that I looked like a ghost. I was used to be tired by the end of a long school day, but this was different. I didn't feel nauseous or seen to have any other common pregnancy signs so I ignored the thought and just figured I had finally hit my breaking point half-way through this extremely difficult year of teaching.
Finally curiosity won out and I decided to just take a pregnancy test to rule out that possibility. I was shocked to see that extra line appear after just a few seconds. Crazily I kept the news to myself for over 2 days. Stephen's mom was in town and I wasn't ready for anyone besides me and Stephen to know. And knowing Stephen so well, I knew that he would not be able to keep the news from her if she was in the same room as him.
I wanted to do something cute to announce the news to him, but I just was not feeling creative. So I bought a little stuffed lion and hung some baby pacifiers around its next and told him that I had a present for him. I took him a good 10 seconds to figure out what I was trying to say (way faster than it took him to figure out his mom was pregnant with Ashlyn 11 years again!). I was slightly scared that he would be mad because this was definitely not the plan, but he was actually pretty calm. He was only mad that he couldn't tell anyone and told me that I should have waited to tell him in April when he could announce it.
