I just realized that my last post talked about how we were going to announce and I never updated. Whoops. I'm officially the worst blogger ever. So, I ended up making about 300 cookies and dispersed them between our jobs and DH's family. For our jobs, I wrapped cake boxes in baby wrapping paper, put sugar cookies inside that were rolled in pink & blue sugar and put a note on the inside lid that read,
"We don't know yet if we're pink or blue, all we know is we're having TWO!" and followed it saying (insert our last name) twins due April 2014. I left mine in our kitchen at work and waited. DH took his to work and I believe left it on the counter. They got quite the reaction. It was pretty great.
For DH's family, we did another box of cookies, but this time I made M&M with pink & blue M&Ms. On the inside lid we printed "DH & M are pregnant!" and attached an u/s picture of each baby. We were over for a family birthday party, so we saved them for dessert (after the presents had been opened as to not upstage the birthday people). My inlaws knew we were going to do this, so I asked my MIL to have her sister open the cookies. It took her a second to see the note, but once she did she started crying and hugging my MIL. The rest of the family quickly caught on & it was quite the excitement. DHs oldest male cousin asked if there were 2 u/s pictures because there's 2 babies, to which I said Yes and the excitement started all over again. It was wonderful. Most of my family already knew, thanks to some loose lips, so I sent a text to the remaining family that didn't know. Not as dramatic, but we don't see them very often.
Through all this, DH & I turned off our FB walls to avoid people saying anything on there before we could. So to finish our big outing, we turned our walls back on on Sunday night, posted a photo of our cats with a sign saying they were going to be big brothers to twins and the message that "DH and I are very excited to share the news that we are expecting twins in April 2014!! As many of you know, this wasnt an easy road for us and we just wanted to take the time to thank you all for your continued love, support, prayers and encouragement. It really means the world to us."
It feels so good to have announced. I still haven't told my mom she could tell people. I think I'll let it go as long as possible. I have no doubt she continued to tell people anyways though. **sigh**
