April 27, 2009 - Telling Joe's parents

We decided to tell Joe’s parents today so both of our parent’s would know. I went to Sears and got swatches of paint in light blue, light pink, and light yellow (Joe’s idea). We were purchasing a house on May 1st, so it made sense for us to ask opinions on colors. We followed them to their house after eating dinner at Lindsey and Joe’s house. I walked up to Carol with the three swatches and asked her what color we should paint the spare bedroom upstairs. She looked down several times and looked at us, but didn’t understand what we were trying to tell her. I finally said why would we paint any bedroom pink, blue, or yellow. Then she understood and gave us a hug. Larry said he got it right away. Later Carol said she was trying to think of a nice way to tell us that the colors would not look good in our house…of course that was before we were having a baby.