I’m so excited!!!

Okay…so my boss went home yesterday because she was having some contractions and wasn’t feeling well. Logical, right? The funny thing is that when I told her old secretary that Kristy had gone home, Nikki about had an aneurism! Kristy NEVER goes home! She’s not due for two more weeks, so if she’s really in labor, that’s one thing, but she said it was probably just Braxton Hicks and she’d be back the next day. We all thought that she was such a work-a-holic that she would plow through with dictations and depositions until the baby was crowning, so actually cutting out early and cancelling an appointment for the afternoon just because she didn’t feel well was completely out of character. Nikki’s comment was that “Kristy HAS changed.”

I had to think about it for a minute, but it’s true! Two years ago, I’ve been told, Kristy worked all the holidays and weekends. She just did. That’s how she was. I’m not sure if it was the woman-in-a-mans-world sort of mentality of needing to prove herself, if she wanted to bill that many hours and get rich, or if she really did just love her job and reveled in the lawyer work.

Marriage one year ago softened her a bit. Not much, but she didn’t work all the weekends anymore, and hubby insisted on holidays up in Idaho with his family, so being in love, she went along with it and the work load went down a little bit.

Pregnancy nine months ago softened her a bit more. Each new trimester has made her question new things.  She’s experienced changes she wouldn’t have expected, wasn’t prepared for, and that sent her asking questions about to all her family, friends, and minions like me. And each of those trimesters earned me extra points with her because she was starting to realize just how much I was doing, and HAD been doing for her, through all my own aches, pains, and discomforts with pregnancy.

This morning, I got the email that Kristy is in labor. Going home yesterday WAS the real thing. No Braxton Hicks after all. She’s at the hospital now, and the baby will be born today. EEK! I’m so excited for her and can’t wait to see how much the love of a baby changes Kristy again. It’s been such an honor to watch her transition through all these stages of her life at a slight delay from the same changes in my own life.

First of all, I’m just thrilled for Kristy and this amazing new adventure she’s on. Having a beautiful little baby girl will be just awesome for her. Awesome in every dictionary definition of the word. Secondly, I’m so interested to see how these changes in HER life affect MY life. For quite a while, Jon and I have talked about all the things that are frustrating us and that we need to change or that were imminent (Hannah getting ready to crawl and eventually walk), but for the last few months Jon has been adamant that July was going to be the month of change…he didn’t know what, or how, or why something was going to be different in July, but he just needed us to wait until July before doing anything; before making any big decisions. Now I’m beginning to see it. The wheels are turning. Hmm.

For the next two months while Kristy’s on maternity leave, I may actually get a chance to catch up on all the work that she’s piled on me. Instead of cleaning her house in her nesting phase, she cleaned up all her files and cases and dropped everything that was going to need to be done for the next three months on my desk. It’s going to be fantastic to be able to work for a while, making the piles smaller, without her here to stack them back up again. She’s told me that she is fine with my working from home if she’s not here in the office to need me, so I will be able to work and take care of Hannah too…which means that Jon can work undisturbed and we might actually be able to meet all our crazy deadlines this summer. Kristy also mentioned a possible cutting back of hours if I needed to…ridiculous thought right now when I have 18 of her cases that have work to be done on them in the secretarial as well as paralegal capacities…but if I can get those 18 cases caught up before she comes back, I have NO problem cutting back my hours a bit. And who knows what my hours will be in three months? I’m sure that Kristy has no idea at this point what is going to happen to her hours three months from now, so I won’t even begin to make predictions about my own time. I’m so excited for the journey though!

Congratulations, Kristy! I am so happy for you!!!

 

Also, someone brought bagels this morning and left them for the staff in the break room. I LOVE that.

Finally, the secretaries are all going out for Thai food for lunch today.  SCORE!!!!

Can life GET any better than this?! I may swoon.

~ by bylorena on July 16, 2008.