For the entire month of May, I’m a part of a campaign with 8 other bloggers for Bump Month. Nine websites across the country will all be participating in celebrating everything pregnancy. We’ll talk maternity and newborn and of course we’ll have some fab giveaways along the way to let you all play along and have some fun.
This week we’re sharing our personal story “The Moment You Knew You Were a Mom.” My story brings back wonderful and vivid memories that I can pinpoint to the day of conception. I know, TMI!
Becoming a mom was what I wanted more than anything and the road to marriage seemed like an eternity considering husband and I had been dating 6.5 years the day we said “I do.” Looking back, our journey to marriage and becoming parents unfolded as it was meant to be. But at the time I was impatient and wanted a family more than anything. It didn’t help that I was 35!
You see, sassy kid #1 is 3.5 years old and we’ve been married almost 5 yrs. You do the math. It was a running joke while planning our wedding that we’d come return from our honeymoon with “baby on board”.
One month back from Mexico and the pressure was on. I’ll never forget the day the most beautiful and very pink + sign appeared on a stick. It was January 3rd 2006, 2 months after my wedding day. I screamed and jumped up and down and did a little dance with my best friend. The same best friend who was on the phone with me when my water broke 9.5 months later.
Becoming a mom. What was I thinking? Other than being over the moon excited and a little in shock that “it” happened so quickly, not too much. One of the benefits of dating for 6 years is the opportunity to discuss every scenario about our future. This included how and where we would raise our children over and over and over and over. We I talked about it so much I remember asking every so often “You do want kids, right?”
So the moment arrived and I was ready, more than ready. Bring it!
One thing is for sure. If I had been on Facebook at the time, I would have updated my status, most likely Tweeted “We’re expecting!!” and definitely posted on my blog. But that was not to be. We did things the old fashioned way and picked up the phone to call our friends and family to share the big news.
So here we are 3.5 years later and I could not be happier being a mom. Motherhood is the greatest gift I was ever given. How blessed am I to have the opportunity to raise two confident, kind, sassy women!
Cheers!
Read the other Bump Bloggers stories about when they first felt like a mom here.
So here we are 3.5 years later and I could not be happier being a mom. Motherhood is the greatest gift I was ever given. How blessed am I to have the opportunity to raise two confident, kind, sassy women!
I remember the moment I found out I was pregnant like it was yesterday too. I was on a three week business trip that started in China, then went to LA and then finally home. The entire 2+ weeks I was in China, I was pretty sure I was pregnant, but too intimidated by the Chinese language to tackle a Chinese pregnancy test. I landed in LA, got a rental car and drove straight to the drug store. Once checked into my hotel, I headed straight for the bathroom. There, alone in a Hilton Garden Inn bathroom blocks from LAX I too found out I was pregnant. I was so happy I wanted to open the window and scream it to the world. Instead I looked in the mirror, cried and called my best friend!