As stated in the previous post, I found out on November 19th and my mom and I already had a girls weekend planned for that weekend. I debated if I should say any thing yet or not, since I'd only known for two days and there was plenty of time for something to go wrong, but I knew there was NO WAY I could go a whole weekend, just me and my mom, and NOT say anything. We met up in College Station (whoop!) to watch the Aggies play Baylor. I always laugh at my mom when the Aggies play the Bears because she just looks confused... Aggie shirt, Baylor visor, cheering pretty much the whole time (like a person who doesn't understand football), because she wants them both to win (...sorry mom, it doesn't work that way). To my WONDERFUL surprise, my sweet mom and sweet best friend had been lying to me all week and Greta and Russell ended up driving my mom down to College Station because they were going to the game too. We all enjoyed a lovely lunch at Layne's Chicken Fingers (hands down, the best) where my mom noticed a young mother outside with two little ones. She made some comment about how she had her hands full and we needed to enjoy all our free time now before all that. Apparently, I made some kind of subtle smirk that my mom picked up on; however, she wouldn't know until Sunday what it was for. We walked in the cold and misty rain to the game where the Ags pulled it out for a big "W".
I think Andrew texted me a couple times during the weekend to ask if I had broken the news yet. I'm not sure why I waited until Sunday, but I did. We got up and got dressed and before we left I gave my mom her birthday card. It was something with a cat praying to the "Tuna God" to use the can opener... who knows... something my cats probably do all the time at home since my mom & dad have spoiled them :) Inside it had a phrase along the lines of "I hope all your birthday prayers come true", so I decided that was a good segway to ask for one additional prayer request... that her great grandbaby be healthy! There were tears, of course, so we figured a big breakfast at Denny's was the best way to handle that. We had fun already talking about names and other baby stuff then headed to the Barnes and Noble next door to check out what fun baby books they had in stock. My mom definitely took my picture in the Baby Book section... nerd! Love her to death, she was just so excited!!! It felt so good to be able to share our joy with someone else, I just felt guilty because she wasn't able to tell my dad. I wouldn't be home for several weeks and wanted to tell him in person. Looking back, that was pretty mean, but I didn't think I really had another option, oh well. :-)
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