Since we are a few weeks away (just about 3) from the arrival of our daughter we thought it was time to start a blog to keep everyone up to date on "what our Katie did" and is doing. It seems appropriate for this first entry to be about the beginning of this wonderful journey. Andrew and I had been praying about, talking about, and thinking a lot about when we wanted to start our family. We were thinking that since we are still living year to year, not knowing where/when/if Andrew will get a job as a professor it would be best to wait until we were settled.
But remember Isaiah 55:8-10? It says, "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts." So although we were surprised on that day in early March when we saw the little plus sign on the pregnancy test, this was not a surprise to God; He had better plans for us than we could have planned for or imagined. His ways are so good!
We knew about 4 weeks before we told anyone, so we had some time to plan how we wanted to share the news with our families. It was the first grand baby on my side (and I'm much less creative than my crafty husband) so I decided that I was going to tell my parents and sisters on the phone by asking them if they were ready to be grandparents or an aunt. Oh how I wish we could have done it in person! But we were still living 5 hours away and I couldn't wait any longer to share our big news...even 8 weeks was a stretch!
For Andrew's family he had the wonderful idea of using a photo of his two nephews who had just met and adding a third picture of an 8 week old fetus since we didn't have a sonogram picture yet. We posted the picture on our refrigerator and took a series of shots from a distance and then closer and closer (see below) to keep them guessing as to what was added to the picture. We sent it in a carefully crafted email entitled "Cousins in Virginia." As soon as we pressed send we called them and they opened it while we were on the phone. We interrupted his parents' dinner and his dad said something like, "This better be good!" They opened the attachments and at the second or third one Andrew's mom said, "Is Maureen on the phone?" She got it pretty quickly! Stephen and Emma and Tim and Amy (Andrew's brothers and their wives) also caught on right away. We then called Grandpa and Grandma Witmer. Grandma said, "What is that? Bread? A piece of cheese?!" "No," we laughed, "That's not cheese. That's our baby!"
It was great fun to tell everyone and it will be even more fun to introduce her to everyone!
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