A Happy Anniversary

Orignially posted on November 19, 2012.

A short post for today, as I am trying to soak up as much baby time as I possibly can before I go back to work next week :(

But today is a day to be celebrated! One year ago today I got this amazing news:

If you read this post then you know what I went through to get that amazing result. But if you didn't read it, here's an excerpt of how I found out I was pregnant:

 I had this feeling come over me. I felt a little bit sick, like I had a cold, and just had this feeling. I don't even know how to describe it just something niggling in the back of my mind and I couldn't put my finger on it. I went home that night feeling a little icky like I was coming down with a cold or flu and still had that "feeling."

The next day I slept in because I still felt a little sick and we were going to Syracuse to watch my brother play in the football finals. I took my temperature and it was high. I figured because I had a touch of something. Then something made me look back at my chart. I noticed that I had a spiked temp a few days before and that my temp was still high. No, I thought, there is no way. But I just had that feeling. I wondered if the feeling was all in my head and I was setting myself up for disappointment. I didn't even find Andy I went in the bathroom and got out my little my dollar tree test (I found that it was a lot easier to use the dollar tree tests because I was testing SO much). As I was waiting for it to inevitably not show another line Andy came in to find me testing yet again. This had been a common scene in recent months. He said it's too early, why are you doing this, you are just going to get yourself upset again. I said, I know, I know, I just figured I would try. It was only showing one line anyways.

He hugged me then and I got a little teary eyed when over his should I saw it. It was VERY faint, but it was there. A very, very faint second line on my pee test. Now I had taken LOTS of pregnancy tests and I knew that the ones with blue dye almost always have a slight evaporation line. And EPT tests do sometimes as well. But dollar tree tests NEVER have an evaporation line. EVER. I said Andy, hold on...I pulled out the big guns for this. I had bought a box of clear blue digital tests on sale for the day when I would need confirmation. I dipped the digital test in the cup (always pee in a cup and then dip the test in...less foolproof, and then if you need to take 15 tests to check you don't have to wait. I am an expert, trust me!) and we waited for what seemed like 10 years. It blinked and blinked and blinked until low and behold...

                                                PREGNANT.

I was seriously in shock. How on earth could it be?! Once it hit me I started to cry and was jumping up and down, pee sticks flailing about. I grabbed Andy and hugged him so hard. We were both so surprised and shocked and he did not believe it. He was so sure it was a mistake and even I was a little miffed. How could it have happened so fast? The first try on Clomid. We really could not believe what we saw especially because it was SO soon after I had ovulated, or supposedly ovulated.

See, dreams DO come true, and miracles DO happen. I still can't believe how fast a year went by. Here we are a year later and I have this beautiful little munchkin in my life.
So happy anniversary to me, and my hubby, and to our little angel. Thank you for coming into our lives and making me the happiest mommy in the whole world!

Love and Laughs,

Danielle