Announcing….

Back in the day, when we were trying to conceive for the first time, I spent an inordinate amount of time dreaming up ways to announce my pregnancy. First, I was going to tell everyone in the thank you cards I sent out for our wedding gifts, then I was going to tell everyone at Thanksgiving, then I dreamt of announcing it in our Christmas cards that year. I imagined telling Beloved for his birthday in December, pictured announcing it on Christmas Eve, and even thought that the news might make a lovely birthday gift for my mother in February.

Needless to say, I was foiled every time. Those were the dark days of infertility.

And then with Tristan, because everybody knew we were going through the in vitro treatment, although there was a lot of joy involved in announcing his conception and my pregnancy, we had lost the element of surprise.

That’s why announcing my pregnancy with Simon was such fun. It was as much a shock to us as it was to the rest of the world, and I had fun playing with the element of surprise.

With frostie last month, it was fun to once again be dreaming up all kinds of ways to announce to you all that I was pregnant … right up until I took the test that turned out to be negative (and my period arrived like – well, like a period at the end of that sentence).

All this to say, I’ve spent more time than the average girl thinking about innovative ways to announce a pregnancy. And yet, when I really need some inspiration, my mind is completely blank. My muse has left the building.

Well, a picture is worth a thousand words, right?

How about that? I’m pregnant!

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Author: DaniGirl

Canadian. storyteller, photographer, mom to 3. Professional dilettante.

66 thoughts on “Announcing….”

  1. WOOO HOO! HOOOORRRAAAAYYYY!…NO SHIT!
    (doing the happy dance!)
    I can’t imagine how excite you all are.
    OH Yes I can…been there! I’m soo thrilled for you.
    Here’s to a uneventful 9 months or however long is left!
    LOVE AND HUGS!

  2. WOOO HOO! HOOOORRRAAAAYYYY!…NO SHIT!
    (doing the happy dance!)
    I can’t imagine how excite you all are.
    OH Yes I can…been there! I’m soo thrilled for you.
    Here’s to a uneventful 9 months or however long is left!
    LOVE AND HUGS!

  13. I’m all tingly with this most awesome news! And to think I was just with you yesterday. With you AND this little miracle. I just wished I had hugged you even more.
    Congratulations my friend. After this past summer’s miserable fertility roller-coaster, this new turn of events is, simply, the best.
    Keeping everything crossed for you and your miracle. may it be smooth sailing from here on.
    Love

  14. I’m all tingly with this most awesome news! And to think I was just with you yesterday. With you AND this little miracle. I just wished I had hugged you even more.
    Congratulations my friend. After this past summer’s miserable fertility roller-coaster, this new turn of events is, simply, the best.
    Keeping everything crossed for you and your miracle. may it be smooth sailing from here on.
    Love

  15. OH MY GOD!
    congratulations. I can’t put into words how happy I am for you.
    !!!
    We have some celebrating to do when you are down here in October.

  16. OH MY GOD!
    congratulations. I can’t put into words how happy I am for you.
    !!!
    We have some celebrating to do when you are down here in October.

  17. You shocked the heck out of me!!!! Hubby is wondering why I am all teary-eyed – LOL!
    So? Give us the details, woman! How far along, due date, etc?

  18. You shocked the heck out of me!!!! Hubby is wondering why I am all teary-eyed – LOL!
    So? Give us the details, woman! How far along, due date, etc?

  31. Way to be, Dani!
    Congratulations, and I hope you feel terrific for the whole thing!
    Can’t wait to live vicariously through all of your updates!

  32. Way to be, Dani!
    Congratulations, and I hope you feel terrific for the whole thing!
    Can’t wait to live vicariously through all of your updates!

  35. What incredible news! I am so happy for you! I love how you announced it! Those two lines say it all.
    Love,
    Lini

  36. What incredible news! I am so happy for you! I love how you announced it! Those two lines say it all.
    Love,
    Lini

  37. Good things come to those who wait, Dani… and you are most deserving of this good news my friend!!! I am so happy for you, makes me want start trying myself — kidding!!!
    Just think… for the next 9 months you will never NOT have a topic to blog about!!! Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!

  38. Good things come to those who wait, Dani… and you are most deserving of this good news my friend!!! I am so happy for you, makes me want start trying myself — kidding!!!
    Just think… for the next 9 months you will never NOT have a topic to blog about!!! Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!

  39. Oh holy freaking crap! Holy cow!
    I can’t think of a better way. And I cannot WAIT to hear how you tell the family.
    Friends of ours announced theirs by emailing a pic of a bun in their oven. It took a while to get it (cause I’m sorta thick) but I loved it!

  40. Oh holy freaking crap! Holy cow!
    I can’t think of a better way. And I cannot WAIT to hear how you tell the family.
    Friends of ours announced theirs by emailing a pic of a bun in their oven. It took a while to get it (cause I’m sorta thick) but I loved it!

  43. A cloudburst of happy tears for you.
    And, funnily, I just typed couldburst of happy tears because I couldn’t see the screen, then corrected it, then decided that I meant that too – a couldburst of happy tears for you too.
    Allow me to buy you a striped turtleneck maternity top when you come to Toronto in October, okay?

  44. A cloudburst of happy tears for you.
    And, funnily, I just typed couldburst of happy tears because I couldn’t see the screen, then corrected it, then decided that I meant that too – a couldburst of happy tears for you too.
    Allow me to buy you a striped turtleneck maternity top when you come to Toronto in October, okay?

  53. I am still shaking I am so happy for you. Although I have to say that when I asked Amelia if she’d like a new freind she nodded her head and said “SIMM-UN”. She kinda stuck on your middle child!
    Congratulations again to you and Beloved. You are my favourite silver lining friend.

  54. I am still shaking I am so happy for you. Although I have to say that when I asked Amelia if she’d like a new freind she nodded her head and said “SIMM-UN”. She kinda stuck on your middle child!
    Congratulations again to you and Beloved. You are my favourite silver lining friend.

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