Author Archives: we4keenes

Today when I pulled into church at Antioch, Jen Shuck was in the car right behind me (no husbands: mine was at home asleep since he works nights right now, and hers is in Hawaii on business). It was a sign! She was headed to her Sunday School class and I was walking into churchContinue reading “Babies R Us”

Jim just couldn’t wait to tell someone, so we picked our good friends Adam and Sarah. Actually, we told their daughter (our god-daughter), Aly, first… but since she’s ten months old, she couldn’t tell anyone else. We babysat Aly on Friday night and when we took her home, Jim broke the news that she wouldContinue reading “Spreading the News”

After I got off the phone with Nurse Nancy, I felt really disappointed. I had told her on the phone, “I just wish I’d seen it [the positive test].” Then I remembered that I had one here at home! So I marched myself to the bathroom and took it. Less than the required two minutesContinue reading “Just Checking”

When we went to PacLab in Issaquah to get the blood work done, they hadn’t received the work order from the doctor’s office. Jim said, “Can’t we pull the pregnancy card?” So the nice man at the front desk made some phone calls and decided that we could go ahead and get the blood drawnContinue reading “Waiting for the call”

I had already called Jim and told him a little bit about the appointment, including that I had taken a pregnancy test and that it was negative – just as we expected it to be. Erin had joked that now I could find a really creative way to tell him, since he wasn’t with meContinue reading “Telling Jim”

What a surprise! I went to the doctor for a routine check-up on November 8th. The nurse had me take a pregnancy test. I laughed and said, “I don’t think I’m pregnant.” Sure enough, the urine test was negative. I had a great visit with my new ARN-CNM, Erin. A few hours after I left,Continue reading “Pregnant!”