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Today at 6:30 a.m. I called Julie and asked her if she wanted to meet me at Grandma Jeanie’s at 7:00. She asked why and I told her that we had mother’s day gifts that we wanted to give them and since we were going to be out of town we wanted to do it this morning.

She said that Grandma Jeanie was out of town but I could come over to her house and bring Grandma’s present and she would give it to her. So I agreed. I went to Wal-mart and bought her some flowers (same thing we got my mom, different type) and then headed over there.

Of course the first thing she saw was the flowers. So she spent at least 10 minutes putting them in the vase and marveling over how nice they were. Then she took me on a tour of the trailer. It is really nice inside and she has a HUGE (it used to be two bedrooms but they took out the center wall) workshop and still a spare bedroom and a master bedroom. For a trailer, I could live there.

Finally we made our way back to the kitchen and I asked if she wanted to open her card. She asked if I was sure I wanted her to open it now and not wait until Mother’s Day. I said no, open it now. So she opened it and she, like my mom, knew as soon as she opened it. At first she looked confused thinking that I might have given her Grandma’s card. Then she said “Are you pregnant?” I did the same thing I did with my mom. I said you’ll have to read the inside. I had written the same thing inside her card and Grandma’s that was in my moms. As soon as she read that she started crying and then came over and hugged me.

Then we tried to call Grandma but she didn’t answer so we called Molly. It was only 6:30 their time but Julie wanted to call her so I didn’t argue. She was excited. This will make our children about a year apart. As soon as I got off the phone with Molly Grandma called back. So I told her she was going to have another great-grandchild and she was of course excited as well.

Finally about 7:50 I decided that I should probably go to work. By lunch I was just bursting to talk about it so luckily I had lunch scheduled with my friend. I think we spent the entire time talking about either her baby or mine.

Then after lunch I had to suffer through an entire afternoon of work. I’m really ready to be on vacation on Friday so I can have another week for it to sink in. Once it’s been a little while I don’t think it will be as fresh in my mind and so I won’t want to talk about it as much. (At least that’s my hope.)