Oh... MY... GOD!!!! - We're PREGNANT! - 23 June 2007

I can't believe it. We have a little miracle growing inside of me.

We started the morning off by heading up to Toowoomba to look for an investment property. We spent the whole morning looking and fell in love with the final house we spotted - only we couldn't get in to look at it as the Real Estate Agent was flat out and couldn't show us until later that afternoon. We decided if it was really 'the one' that it would still be there for us when we come back to look inside. So back to Brisbane we headed.

I was up to day 36 in my cycle and my period still hadn't made an appearance. I was frustrated as I'd been getting cramps and was quite 'crabby' with Andrew.

When we arrived home I decided to try another of our seemingly endless supplies of pregnancy tester kits. Andrew had the suggestion that I have a sleep first as I was quite tired and he didn't want me to be upset if it was a big fat negative. My silly response, "Honey - i'd rather lie down and cry than toss and turn trying to sleep not knowing 'if' we might be pregnant.

So, I took the silly little plastic cup and filled it without managing to pee on my hands (quite a feat!). Andrew really wanted to stay with me for the reading in the bathroom, but it seemed like it was taking forever and I just had it in my mind that it was going to be 'negative'. So I asked that he leave me be for a while. He left me in the bathroom but said "Ok babe - well i'll just be out here." Slowly, a second very faint line appeared. I calmly called out to Andrew and stupidly asked, "Babe, what does the second line mean?" He flipped the brochure around and read "it's positive." "But it's so faint."

So off we went to the chemist to pick up another test. I got the '2 pack' .... 'just in case'. After taking the second test, another faint second line appeared. I just couldn't believe it.

That evening we had my parents around to tell them in person and as Andrew's parents lived nearly 3 hours away, we told them the next morning over the phone.

I couldn't believe how elated we both were. Andrew cracked open a special bottle of port that we bought when we were in Adelaide only a few weeks before, and lit a couple of cigars. Whilst the guys retreated outside to smoke their cigars, Mum and I stayed indoors - her nursing a cup of coffee and me with a glass of red cordial (how exciting - not - haha).