July 2012 Moms
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How are you telling the family? Cute ideas?
josilee3
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Hi everyone! This is our first baby and we are planning to wait until Christmas to tell both our families. Does anyone have any cute ideas that they are planning to use? Thanks!
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Re: How are you telling the family? Cute ideas?
Living Well on the Cheap
I think I'm in the minority here, but I'm telling my immediate family as soon as possible. I see them all the time and am a terrible liar. Plus, if my mom or stepmom offers me a glass of wine and I don't accept, they'll know right away and I highly doubt my ability to give a fake excuse to the two women who know me best. Also, I'm really close to my parents and can't stand the fact that they don't know already. Finally, they'll be pretty good about keeping their mouths shut until we give them the OK.
We're going to my mom's for dinner on Wednesday (she lives about an hour from me) and my dad and stepmom's for the weekend (they live about 3 hours away).
The plan WAS (and has been for a really long time, despite the fact that we were TTA) to give my parents t-shirts from the university where DH and I met, got our degrees (including the one he's still working on) and I currently work that are specifically for grandparents.
Of course, when I went to the university's bookstore today, they only had the university grandpa shirts, no grandma shirts and no clue as to when they might come in. I could tell the hormones were kicking in because I cried about it on the way home. Sigh. I might just make the shirts.