My Lily

1 year ago today I had to meet with a manager about a not-so-great evaluation I had just received on a job that I thought I did fairly well on. I had to meet with him in the 7am hour due to me having a girl doctor appoint at 8:30am. This doctor's appointment was originally scheduled 2 and a half weeks earlier but due to work being extended on my out of town client, I had to reschedule (which is very ironic after you read below). On top of these 2 things I was right in the middle of busy season and I was trying to wrap up an out of town job while being pushed head deep into a new client. Lets just say I was dreading the day and not in the best mood.

So I went and argued out my evaluation to my manager (which was a hard thing to do being that I am non confrontational). Then I headed over to St. Vincents for my "routine" girl doctor visit.

I told the doc that I was beginning to become ready for a baby in my world. He told me to come to his office and we would discuss fertility options as it might be harder for me. I walked in his office and sat down and then him and a nurse walked promptly in.

He said "this is conversation is going to go a little different than expected." My body went cold as I thought he was going to tell me I had cancer or something very bad. Then he quickly said, "we did a pregnancy test on you and you are positive". It took a quick second for that to register and then I explained to him that I didn't think I was. Then I explained that I had been out of town for a month and a half (but did come home on weekends) and I was just confused. He said, "well those test are like 99% correct and lets just talk like you are". So he rattled off all this stuff and I heard NOTHING.

My mind was working in overtime. "How could this be?" I had really not thought about it while I was working my busy season. My mind was going from "how wonderful" to "Wait, am I ready?"

Ready or not Baby Kate came 30 weeks later. That was another surprise. She decided to come 6weeks and 5 days early. I am starting to think there are going to be many more surprises in my life, so I'll just put my trust in God.

After they did a blood test on me and confirmed I was indeed 3-4 weeks pregnant, I thought back to when my doctor's appointment originally was scheduled. If I had gone then, they probably would not have detected my pregnancy because it would have been too early. And if they had not detected it, it would have probably been several months before I thought anything was weird. What a blessing I found out early and started taking my prenatal vitamins.

Here is a lily Don brought home this very day 1 year ago to celebrate the life of our new child...



This day will always be special because I felt like God spoke to me on this day (that country song "I saw God today" comes to mind).