The News We Have Longed For

The 21st April 2015  did not started off like any normal day in the household because I had been taken Champix tablets to give up smoking and this was the first full day I did not want a cigarette which I was well impressed with seeing as I had only been taking the tablets for 7 days and they do say to pick a date between days 8-14 I had already picked the 28th the day I was due to go in to hospital (Which I will tell you about in a later post).

So had my morning cup of tea , breakfast and daily tablets, powered on the laptop and put the morning news on TV and about mid morning eldest Daughter rings me for a chat which she normally does on her day off work and we can end up being on the phone for at least two hours plus.

My daughter asked did I want to go on Skype and chat (don`t know why we don`t do it that way more often it is free).I log on to video call and see my daughter on the screen and she just looks different she has this sparkle in her eyes and that look only a mother knows and I start to ask her if everything is all ok and she replies that everything is but she cant hide this huge smile across her face.

Suddenly the penny drops as I know my daughter and son in law have been trying for a few months to start a family and I ask her if there is something she wants to tell me and her dad and she nods her head still with a huge grin on her face.  I call my husband over and tells him our daughter wants to chat to us and I scribble on a piece of paper

"Daddy she is pregnant"

We are over the moon and smiling away and clapping hands and cuddling and just so so happy. Daughter is then a bit deflated because she has always wanted to tell us face to face and after the 12 week scan but just could not contain her self any more and I totally understand I could not keep a huge secret like that when I found out I was expecting her.

We never pushed her for information so when we finished our call on Skype all we knew was we were going to be grand parents ,We did not know how many weeks she was , When little one was due nothing.

So I started remembering certain bits from previous calls I had with daughter over the last few weeks and worked out it was going to be a December-January baby which was great because the Dad to be has a birthday in December and Mum to be has a birthday in January.

We can`t wait to watch our daughter Bloom threw out her pregnancy and welcome our new grandchild or children as Dad to be is a twin.

I will be regularly updating this blog with Daughters progress ,Photos ,What we have brought and what I have won from competitions (have already won some baby products) and anything baby and grand parent related.