Telling our parents

We wanted to tell our parents the weekend after we found out but Dr. Dad was out of town on a beach golf excursion. I had been to lunch at Olive Garden earlier in the day with my mother. It was my Friday off. Mom flat out asked me if I was pregnant as she knew Jason and I had been talking about it some. I had to lie and say no because I couldn't tell her then and there without Jason or Dad. She has an uncanny way of guessing things.

Mom and Dad had recently gotten a new kitten, Merlin, so as a cover up we went over to my parents house to see the cat. We were planning to tell them, yet when we got there the conversation was going in a very sarcastic direction. It was very difficult to find the right time to bring up something so big and exciting. Mom was talking about moving into town in a small house and then mentioned maybe when I had a baby. I seized the opportunity and chimed in that it would be in a little less than 9 months. They looked confused and kept on talking. Jason and I started to giggle. Mom then says, "What are you laughing about?" We explained that they must not have heard us correctly, that we were going to have a baby in a little less than 9 months. She looked with Surprise and then asks "YOU'RE PREGNANT?" I said yes. All the while Dad sat in his recliner not saying much but grinning. Then mom started talking a mile a minute as usual. It wasn't long until she shot upstairs to bring down baby's first gift. We knew she was ready to be a grandmother. They are trying to figure out what the baby will call them. To their dismay, Jason and I tease, we will do everything we can to teach the baby that they are "MooMoo" and PooPoo."

The following night Dr. Dad returned from his beach trip and we went over to tell Mom and Dr. Dad. We got away with general conversation for a while and then Jason told them that we had some big news. They were going to be grandparents. They were very excited for us and gave us some words of wisdom followed by the question and answer session. It must have been my new haircut they thought. Apparently that is a Logue tradition. Get a big haircut and have a baby. Once things calmed down a little, we decided in big news fashion, we would all pile into the car and go over to Nune's, Jason's grandmother's house. We gathered around and talked for a little while, then Jason gave the news. I knew this was really special for him, as I think he was most excited to tell Nune. I got a little emotional, and if I remember correctly, she said, "Thank goodness, I can't wait to tell my friends. They are all buying stuff for their great grandchildren and all I can buy stuff for has been the cats." She was so cute. She went to call her neighbor Dorris. We decided to wait until the family was together at Thanksgiving to tell the others. - Caroline may have had some suspicion as I had mentioned to her previously that we were thinking about planning for a baby and we would know by November. I had asked her for her opinion since she asked me to be the matron of honor in her wedding in June (close to the planned due date). I told her that it was to be her event and that I didn't want to be waddling down the isle or potentially be stealing any of her excitement over her wedding. She sounded genuinely excited to find out we were thinking about a baby and said that we should go for it. She added that she thought it would be cool that the baby, even unborn, would be at the wedding. I was so glad that she was OK with the idea because if she had seemed hesitant at all, we would have waited until the following year.