Telling My Parents (and Siblings)

After telling my 2nd mom and dad, we had to tell them to explicitly ignore and not write anything on facebook because my family didn't know yet.  We had planned to drive the 6.5 hour drive to tell them this weekend (or last rather).  We took off on Friday night after hubby was done with school.  I had talked to my mom on the phone and she tried to convince me not to come because it was such a long drive for such a short visit.  (Boy was she glad I didn't listen!)  We got there at 1am and my parents were at the local water hole.  I brought their presents in and told my mom I had some gifts for them and if they wanted to open them there.  She asked if she would cry and I said "maybe" so she wanted to open them at home.  We went back to my parents house and after lots of ruckus of starting the fire and whatnot, I finally was able to make them open their gifts.  I had bought my dad a jug of Jack Daniel's Whiskey with a little sign that read "Grandpas drink whiskey" and my mom a jug of Long Island Ice Tea and a sign that said "Grandmas drink tea".  I told them they had to open them at the same time.  My dad ended up getting his open first and read it aloud.  My mom stopped opening hers and just looked at his and looked at us to confirm and then proceeded to cry...for like the next hour!  She was so excited she started texting everyone in her phone and called her good friend (at 2am) to share the good news.  Her friend is going to be a grandma this fall too, so my mom's words to her were "I'm going to be a Grandma, too!"  It was lots of fun!

My mom then made me go wake up my brother (who is 14) and tell him the good news.  I had made him a card that said "A great brother gets promoted to uncle".  He was excited, but he was soooo sleepy.  I think he said something like "yea, that's cool." and my mom said "aren't you excited!!!" and he said "I'd be more excited if I wasn't so tired...." and went back to bed.  I don't blame him.

My oldest of my younger sisters was not home so I had to {impatiently} wait for her to get home the next morning.  She then received her "birthday" present.  I had wrapped her real bday present up with the new aunt present as well.  I told her she had to open the big box first, which was a box of tampons that I had written "I figured you could use these, since I won't need them for the next 7 months!" As she opened it, she didn't see the writing and looked at me and said..."is this for real?"....and I said to just keep opening it....then she did and read it and was very excited!

My youngest sister was down by me for State Hockey Tournaments.  I met up with her before I left for home and gave her the good news present.  She loves to do hand embroidery so I found some bibs and ironed on some zoo animals for her to make {for me!} lol. She opened it up and saw all the thread and the bibs and was like "Cool!....but why did you give me bibs..." and then I gave her a card that said "Congrats Auntie! You have 7 more months to finish these before Baby Watson makes his or her debut in October!"  She was very excited too!!!

I surprised one more person before spilling the beans on Facebook.  My cousin and godmother loves to crochet (just like me!).  So I called her before I left the cities to ask if she needed any yarn...which of course she did!  So I picked up what she wanted and then bought another skein of variated bight colored yarn and wrote essentially the same thing as my sisters with "you have 7 more months to make me a hat and booties before baby watson makes his/her debut in October".  When I gave it to her, she cried too!  It was just an overall very fun experience :)