This Is Me....

This is me being told I'm going to become an aunt.



Yes, on or about August 17, the Partenheimer family is going to get bigger.

On Christmas Day, I Skyped with my side of the family back in New Jersey.  I thought we were going to fill each other in on our Christmas mornings, but I was going to learn there was bigger news to share.  Scott and his wife, Stevie, had broken the news at our family's Christmas Eve gathering the night before and apparently they had spent dinner concocting their plan to surprise me.  They decided to videotape my reaction, which is how we have this still shot. 

I've always thought I could see a pregnancy announcement coming, but no, not this one.  They totally had me.  They always said they were going to wait a few years to have kids, so thinking that I was going to become an aunt any time soon was not on my radar.  So to say I was surprised - and delighted - is an understatement.     

My little brother is going to be a dad.  Wow.  More so than becoming an aunt, that will take some getting used to.