Tonight Jared and I spent our evening eating some final gelato and pizza and then sitting by the sea and watching the waves and two little boys picking up wet rocks and putting them into their mouths to taste the salt on their tongues. We followed that up with coming back to the room and watching a movie (Definitely, Maybe… It’s a good one) procrastinating every bit of packing that needs to be done. Again. It’s kind of hard saying goodbye to this place when it has been a place of much-needed comfort, and also it is the place where we came to know that life as we know it will be changing.
Do you remember that story about the crazy bugs at the bungalow our first night in Cecina? Well, if you remember correctly you will remember how freaked out I was and how I forgot to grab even a change of clothes so I went to breakfast in my pajamas. Well, consider how extremely tired and stressed we were and then the waking up in a beautiful stone cottage surrounded by green and mountains and vineyards out the window. Now calculate in the fact that we had hours to kill there with no means of transportation until Rosella and Nadio came to get us at 3 PM. Now remember that I was much too tired and scared of the bugs to remember a change of clothes let alone anything else. I really want to keep this “G” rated, so let’s do:
A + B = C.
Being flustered and remembering to bring NOTHING + waking up in an extremely romantic place with lots of time on our hands = I’M PREGNANT!
I know, it was a shock for us too. I have really been wanting to blog about this, but I also have been doing the whole “Is it too early for us to let everyone know?” question in my head. We decided that it isn’t. Plus, the story is just waaaayyy too good. I just have to make a blog while it is fresh in my mind.
So a week or two after the mysterious, romantic cottage I was looking online at my ovulation schedule so that Jared and I could be certain to not get pregnant in the year to come and I glanced at the month of May, only to realize that the evening spent in the cottage was the day in May that I was most likely to get pregnant. At this point I could just see God laughing about it. We try so hard to make our own plans work out. God sent us bugs and stress and then a romantic afternoon all to wipe our plans out.
As you can imagine, for the next week or so I was anxious to see if I would be “late” and also trying really hard not to think things one way or the other. I actually, was extremely excited at the prospect that I might be pregnant, but also worried a little because it was not at all what we had planned. After all, we are in Italy with no home of our own to come back to. Our savings is basically non-existent, and the last time I put on a baby diaper I put it on backwards. True story.
As the week progressed I began realizing that I felt pregnant. Not really sure what triggers that in a woman, but sometimes we just know, I think. I eventually took a pregnancy test, and then another the next day but both positives were so faint that I just wouldn’t let myself believe it. Jared and I went out for a celebration dinner and we called it our “could possibly be pregnant dinner”. I promised myself that I would not believe it until I had a definite positive. Every time I wanted to talk about it, I would try as hard as possible (sometimes failing) to change the subject in my brain. I waited until May 25th (Jared’s birthday) and took the third, and final test. I was so excited that I woke up three hours before I normally do just to take the test. Anyway, this one was undeniably positive with two bright pink lines. Happy Birthday, Jared!
From this point on we have been accepting the idea and coming to love the little sesame seed of a baby in my tummy. What a pleasant surprise! We are grateful that this happened at a late stage in our trip because had it happened any earlier I would have had to see a doctor in Europe. Luckily, I come home in about 5 weeks which allows me to wait until we get back to go. I am hoping and praying that for now that God’s protection would be all around and that everything will go smoothly and I will feel well while we finish our travels. We are also accepting prayers! :)
As much as I would like to write more and more about it because it happens to kind of consume all of my thoughts lately, I absolutely need to continue packing and getting responsible adult stuff done like work! As you can see, Cecina and the surrounding Tuscan hills will always have a very special, and comical place in our memories. Caio!
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