"There are two lines there!"

My alarm was set for 9:15. I planned on sleeping in until then. Then I would wake up and get ready for our monthly Leadership Team meeting at 10:30. I remember hearing Kim get up to go to the bathroom around 8:15. I turned over and tried to get back to sleep for the last hour, but I wouldn't get to. She climbed back in bed and told me she had just "peed on the stick" again. I hadn't realized yet that it was Sunday morning, when we had said she would take the test again.

We bought the box of three First Response Pregnancy tests earlier in the week, thinking we had waited long enough. But when Kim took the test earlier in the week, it was negative. We made ourselves wait until this morning to try again. But we had both decided that Kim wasn't pregnant yet. We talked about that as we waited for the 5 minutes in bed this morning. Kim said that she was starting to feel "crampy" and knew her period was just around the corner. I told her that I thought she had been moody the last few days, and that I had already decided she probably wasn't pregnant. After all, we both said, most couples don't conceive on their very first try. So, we had ourselves completely convinced that the test sitting in the bathroom would be negative again. "We'll just try again next month, honey, and as long as it takes after that" I said. I didn't even get out of bed to walk in there with Kim, like I had earlier in the week.

So she peeked her head in, then turned around to me and said "There are two lines there." I didn't think it was possible, so I asked "You're not kidding with me, are you?" She said she wasn't and that I should come look myself. I jumped out of bed and ran in to find what she said was there, 2 clear pink lines. After waiting all day, she just took the last one to make sure. 2 lines again, so it looks like she is definitely pregnant.

We're not scared, at least not yet. There'll be time in the next few days for us to explain why we started trying (we know it won't make sense to many). There'll be plenty of blogs and pictures about dr's appointments and sonograms, showers and baby furniture. And I imagine we'll write plenty about our fears and our questions.

But tonight, we're just very very happy.