One year ago today

This time a year ago I was sending David out for a pregnancy test. He went to Wal-Mart (so he could go through the self check-out ) and picked up a two pack of tests. By time he got home I had made Brendan go to bed and I started drinking water. I went into our bathroom and almost immediately the test was saying "pregnant"! I believe my reaction was something along the lines of "oh shit"! And as much as we were trying to keep it from Brendan apparently we were talking loud enough that he heard that night and just didn't say anything until we told him a week later.

I'd like to say that we were estatic from the moment we found out but I can say, at least for myself, that estatic was not the emotion I was feeling. Obviously Shane was not planned. I was less than a month away from graduation, I did not have a job lined up yet, and the last conversation David and I had about having kids was something along the lines of "we'll wait until you've been teaching at least a year." Guess someone else had different plans for us.

We've often debated in the last year what night we ended up pregnant - because there were so few opportunities. = ) I say it was the night that I ranted and raved about being stressed and getting no help before leaving for my part-time job only to come home to find he had cleaned the bedroom, made the bed and did a load of laundry. David swears it was a night that I molested him. Either way - it was my fault we ended up pregnant because I quit taking birth control.

Needless to say, even if we didn't realize it at that moment, it was the best day of our marriage and the end of the journey was well worth the initial disbelief and shock. Shane Anthony Alberico has been the pride and joy of his daddy's eye and David has admitted he didn't know what he was getting until the day he arrived. I'm not sure any of us can imagine what life would be like without him and none of us could have imagined how much fun he was going to be!