Who to tell and when?

We have been letting the family immediate know about our news and for those of you who won't find out until later we apologize for the delay but we really wanted to wait to make sure everything is OK. We felt we needed to tell immediate family earlier on for various reasons. We hope you understand.

Heather's parents, who live in Germany, were on a weekend trib to Salzburg where they had some beautiful snow to enrich the scenery while they shopped and took the Sound of Music tour. Heather asked if her Mom wanted an early birthday present and Sandy could barely contain herself and said, with a hesitant drawn out "Yeeeeessssss"! (She knew what H was going to say but didn't want to say it in case she wasn't right.)

H told her and they were both ecstatic. Sandy and Tom had been doing some shopping and Sandy said that they had seen some great stuff for babies and that she was going to have to go back out to get some things! It will be nice to see her in March when she comes for a visit.

We called Heather's brother; Tom and his wife D'Ann. He and his family are all coming down with the ol' (hopefully only) 24 hour flu or whatever is making their son Jakob hurl. Tom jokingly said he didn't know how Heather could possibly be pregnant because that meant, well, you know. :o)> Heather told him that at least we waited to become pregnant until after they left Cincinnati to go back to Amesbury after staying at our house over the Thanksgiving holiday! The funny thing is our due date is the same as D'Ann's birthday!

We called H's sister Katie in Michigan and, after some pleasantries, H told Katie and Katie screamed for 2 minutes. No really. 2 minutes. I think she's excited. She can't wait to go through her maternity clothes and find some things that H might be able to use. I imagine we will be seeing a lot of Katie as we move closer and closer to the due date!