On January 4th 2015 my husband Kyle and I received our first ever positive pregnancy test together. We had been trying to conceive a pregnancy together for four years. Countless dollars on fertility testing, treatments, and procedures for over a year and finally a new fertility clinic that we succeeded with only two months after our first appointment!

I woke up early that morning and tested a few days before my cycle was due to start. I could not believe how quickly the test showed the positive result. Shock and disbelief was an understatement. I ran out of the bathroom and gave my husband the biggest hug. I didn't want to tell him yet as we were only four days away from his birthday and I wanted to surprise him. Well that idea didn't last long because I was just too excited to hold it in. I went running around the house like a crazy person, ripping apart my Christmas bins (that I had JUST packed away) looking for tissue paper, and a gift bag! I woke up the kids, receiving some pretty grumpy moans from them- but I had BIG news to share...

I asked my son Gavin (14) to record it on my cell phone. Savanah (just about to turn 8) climbed under the blankets with Kyle, while Rayann (12) sat on the edge and I stood beside. I gave Kyle the gift bag and told him I had an early "gift" for him that I didn't want to wait to give. It didn't take much for him to figure out what was going on once he felt what was wrapped in the tissue paper. He smiled but wouldn't unwrap the "gift", so Savanah took it from him an unwrapped the pregnancy test. She looked at it and gave a shy, little confused smile. I told her to read what it said in the little window out loud. "Pregnnnnant" she replied questioningly. Then the cheers started. She threw the test in the air and exclaimed "I'm going to be a big sister woo hoo!". It was a pretty remarkable moment.

On January 26th 2015, I went for my first scan at the fertility clinic to check the baby, make sure all was well and baby was in the right spot. Since this was an early ultrasound and there isn't much to see I made the one hour drive to the clinic on my own. Being as I had four children from previous already I knew that it wasn't worth Kyle taking the day off until a later ultrasound. That decision totally bit me in the behind as in that ultrasound not only did I find out baby was doing good and measuring right on track, but I also found out there was TWO babies on board.

WHAAAAT. I lost it. I started rambling like a machine throwing out all kinds of omg's!!! When I went to the front to book my follow up scan (needed to re check baby B as it was measuring behind and no heartbeat detected- potential for vanishing twin) I was shaking and could barely talk. six kids... SIX. I was going to be a mom of six.

I do not know how I got myself back to the city and completed my work day. How was I going to tell Kyle this. Two babies. we were having twins. I knew we had our first midwife appointment booked for that afternoon so I had to tell him before we went as I would need to tell the midwife at the appointment. I got everything set up and my phone hidden, all I had to do was hit the record button when I heard Kyle come in the door from work. Once he came in and removed his outdoor clothes I asked him to come over to the counter. I had the ultrasound pictures sitting there for him. With my phone on record he went over to the ultrasound pictures (remember this is his first ever pregnancy) and studied them. There was three different pictures. He pointed to one of the pictures and said "is that the baby". When I replied yes to his question he then pointed to the other little dark spot in the picture and said "well what is that then?. I smiled and said "what do you think it is?" and he went "Noooo way". I said "yes, we are having two babies". He swore a few times in disbelief and then said "that's it we are putting one up for sale" as I stood there laughing still in major shock myself. (he was only joking about selling one of the babies).

We experienced so many things over the next few weeks. It took a while for our new reality to sink in. We were overwhelmed with so many different thoughts and emotions. There was already four children and now we were going to be adding two more. We wondered if we had enough space, how we would do two more financially, how the older kids would be with two babies consuming all of our attention etc etc. It is a lot to think about for any pregnancy but I found it more overwhelming being it was my fifth. I remember one night very clearly. We were laying in bed talking about the months and years to come. We shed a few tears together as the realization hit us. For years we thought we were never going have a child together, and now somehow by some miracle we were being blessed with two.

On February 6th 2015 Kyle and I went back to our clinic together for a follow up ultrasound to check on the babies, but mainly baby B. We were very anxious for this appointment as we didn't know if baby B would still be there or if it "vanished". So in we go. To our amazement baby B certainly wasn't gone. In fact both babies were there with perfect heart rates and both of them had great measurements.

We left the clinic discharged from their care and into the care of our Dr. (we had to give up the plan of midwifery due to it being a twin pregnancy). It was time to let the planning for the arrival of TWINS to begin. We now needed TWO of everything as we had absolutely nothing for even one baby. We slowly started to purchase the big items two at a time.....