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January 2013 Moms
SPK926
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""No one else will ever know the strength of my love for you. After all, you're the only one who knows what my heart sounds like from the inside."
"On the night you were born, the moon smiled with such wonder that the stars peeked in to see you and the night wind whispered "Life will never be the same." Because there had never been anyone like you... ever in the world." ~ Nancy Tillman
HOW are you going to tell your parents or in-laws?
SPK926
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We will see MIL and FIL on Father's Day and would like to tell them then for many reasons. Its earlier than I would like to tell, but we need to tell them for planning purposes. Anyway, any cute ways? We're going to be out to brunch and that's when we'll give FIL his present. I was thinking maybe a Grandpa bib, cute poem or something......not sure.
""No one else will ever know the strength of my love for you. After all, you're the only one who knows what my heart sounds like from the inside."
"On the night you were born, the moon smiled with such wonder that the stars peeked in to see you and the night wind whispered "Life will never be the same." Because there had never been anyone like you... ever in the world." ~ Nancy Tillman
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Re: HOW are you going to tell your parents or in-laws?
We told our parents the same way on Mothers Day. We were there to give the MIL her gift and my moms was mailed. But - we got a double hinged picture frame and on one side had a picture of us and each set of parents (IL's for IL gift my parents for my moms gift) on our wedding day and on the other side we wrote a note saying "Sorry! Our next family photo isn't due until January 2013!" They both seemed to really love it.
Good luck! I'm sure no matter how you tell them they'll be thrilled!
We are still deciding on how to go about this, we didn't want to tell his parents until I reached 12 weeks and that would be the 4th of July! We usually always have a cookout with his family in which everyone gets together, this is prob how we will do it. I'm a scrapbook junkie so I'll prob create something to give to them and I hope they are surprised because I don't think they saw that coming. I've been telling them I want to wait so they will def be shocked, it's so hard keeping it in!!!! I can't wait to tell them
We told my folks (who we are currently living with) by showing them the announcement photo we took and asking for their thoughts.
We caught their reactions on video-it was so similar to when we told them about DD.
We are getting the announcent photo printed and plan to mail it out to the rest of family and close friends.
With DD, we told our parents by putting the first u/s photo in a frame we found at Bed Bath and Beyond that said Mom+Dad=Me!
BFP #2 12/20/11 | EDD 8/24/12 | Natural M/C 12/22/11
BFP #3 5/13/12 (Mother's Day!) | EDD 1/23/13 | Natural M/C 6/9/12 (blighted ovum discovered 6/7/12 at 7w1d)
"And to think when their little eyes opened, the first thing they saw was the face of Jesus."
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Even though I was only 7 weeks I've told my close family already. I made a big dinner for my boyfriend, my parents, my siblings, and their kids and announced it. It was only fair because even though I'm 24 I live with my parents, my sister, and her daughter. And leaving my brother out would just be mean to have the rest of the family know but not him.
We haven't told his father though. His dad isn't a showy guy, so we're probably just going to have dinner at his place and tell him. We're not sure when, though. When we're about 12 weeks we'll probably release a formal birth announcement for our family and friends.
I told my MIL & FIL this past weekend. We had them over for dinner on Sunday. We have a pitbull puppy who is quite the show stealer already so I made her a shirt that said "big sister" on it. Once everyone was in the kitchen, I let her out of our master bedroom and she ran out to greet everyone. Their faces were priceless! lol.
I also thought about the bib idea. I think that is cute too
We're waiting til the end of 1st tri, just like last time. Last time we gave my dad a bib that said "I Love My Grandpa" for his birthday. As for my ILs, my SIL was also pregnant and due 3 weeks before I was, but she announced as soon as she found out she was pregnant. So 9 weeks later DH asked his parents "how do you feel about becoming grandparents in September?" and they said they were excited, and then he asked "How would you feel about doing it again in October?"
This time my EDD is my parents' 35th wedding anniversary, so I'm thinking I will give them an anniversary card 6 months early, with a picture of DS wearing his Big Brother t-shirt and a copy of the ultrasound pic inside. Not sure what I'll do for the ILs this time, but I'm sure DS's t-shirt will be part of it.
We went on a trip with the IL's recently, so last night we made a slideshow with a bunch of pictures from the trip. At the end we had a transition slide that said "we have something else to show you" and had a picture of us and our positive test. We're most likely just going to show it to my family too.
I really wanted to label the slide before the pregnancy test "souvenirs" but DH shot that one down, haha.
ETA: as far as when we will tell them, it just depends on when we next see them. I think we are going to try and schedule some time next weekend. I'll be like 6-7 weeks or so if that works out.
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We are announcing to DH's family on our trip to St. Thomas. Having a tshirt made for BIL to wear, he is 15 and loves being the center of attention, that says "You can call me . . ." on the front and then "Uncle Matt Coming January 2013" on the back. For my mom, I thought about getting her a picture frame that says something about grandma and we'll give it to her when we go out to lunch one day.
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We got picture frames for my parents and the in-laws. We told my parents on Mother's Day because they're local. My mom has this wall in her house that has the professional pictures of my nephews on it. In the card I gave her, I wrote "I hope you have room on your wall for one more". She was confused until she opened the gift. The picture frame says "Mom+Dad=Me" and it has a picture of me, a picture of A, and then the u/s picture.
We're doing the same thing for A's parents, but we're going to see them this weekend, so we'll give it to them then.