Patent Pending

A girl can never forget the moment she sees two lines, +, or the expensive unmistakeable word PREGNANT appear on her pregnancy test. Emotions explode in a chaotic fashion. For some women, their emotions include (in no particular order):

Overwhelmed

Fear

Happiness

Relief

Shock

Guilt

Pride

Anxiety

Panic

Peace

Weighted

Courage

Power

Confusion

Lost

Gratitude

Love

Hope

Paralyzation

Loneliness

Regret

Shame

Eagerness

Humiliation

Self-consciousness

Excitement

Disconnect

Blindside

Robotic

Obsessiveness

Astonishment

Determination

If you're thinking, "Wow that's a pretty comprehensive list." Then let me tell you that a very important one was left out..

JUSTIFIED

Confused? You won't be in a second..

The alarm goes off (my husband reminds me for the nth time of the dwindling time left before we have to leave for church).

I fly around the house like every other Sunday morning, trying not to forget anything important that needs to be done before we can leave for church.

Roast in the oven. Check.

Feed the kids breakfast. Alex handled it. Awesome.

Slap on some makeup. Check.

Get dressed. Check.

Get the kids dressed. Again, thank you Alex.

Grab my Primary binder. Check.

Run a brush through Jade's hair. Check.

Grease up Leo's hair. Check.

Make sure everyone has their shoes on. Check.

And we are off, just like any other Sunday. 

A friendly church member gives Leo chocolate and Leo drools brown all over Alex's dress shirt. Normal.

Alex runs home to soak the stain and get a new shirt on. He accidentally locks the car and house keys inside the house. 

He calls me at church to tell me what happened. 

Next thing I know, I'm crying tears that can't be stopped. 

Alex calls me back to tell me that he got into the house through a window and is on his way back and all is well. 

I expect my eyes to dry up and to move on with the rest of church but instead the flow of my tears increase tenfold. Friends are stopping me in the hallway and bathroom to ask me what is wrong and I can't find an alone place to get myself together. 

I can't tell them what is wrong, because NOTHING is wrong. 

Then ah ha!! It all makes sense.

In all of my pregnancies thus far (3/3), I experience a complete out-of-body, who is this Tiffany person, studies should be conducted, water-works, red blotchy, make up smeared faced, always in public, cringeworthy moment. This moment, my friends, is more reliable and accurate than any store bought or doctor performed pregnancy test. This is my body's personal pregnancy test invention.

And this is how I find out that I am bringing another child into this world. 

Before any tangible evidence and tests are available to me, I already know that I am 100% PREGNANT! Patent pending folks!

I then wait the required few weeks before I can take a pregnancy test. When I see those already predicted two lines appear, I feel all the emotions over again but this time I also feel JUSTIFIED. 

We are VERY excited to bring a 3rd child into our family and I know a lot of you have some questions for me. Let me see if I can answer some of them. Yes I'm sick again, yes Alex is in his last year of law school and we are very busy, yes this was planned, but most of all YES we are oh so EXCITED and HAPPY! We find out the gender this weekend! Can't wait to see how the scales tip in our currently "even Stevens" family!