An Unexpected Beginning

ser·en·dip·i·ty
-noun
1. an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident.
2. good fortune; luck.

I have often felt that everything in my life is rushing towards a certain path, and for years I have been genuinely confused about my true purpose. Not to say I felt empty before, just not completely full. I have a loving family that has taught me well. A wonderful husband who understands me. A challenging career that is so simultaneously frustrating and rewarding I can't imagine doing anything else.

But being a mom? I had been told by a few doctors that because of some rather obvious fertility issues it was going to be a challenge at best. Now that it's actually happening, I'll be honest, it broke my heart. We had made a decision, we weren't financially ready, so to push the issue now felt irresponsible at best. I know I'm going to sound like a bit of drama queen here but I still felt like my days, er, my eggs were going to be numbered in the near future, so for all intensive purposes, I put my hopes for a child had been put in the (way) back of the drawer for quite a while. I never would have guessed that this thing I had always wanted so badly would have happened so quickly after getting married. Well on a special Friday night in the middle of March, it actually happened.

I felt like crap all day. I was incredibly worn down (I thought from working hard). I went to get a facial (a thing I never treat myself to anymore) just to unwind, and old coworker of mine, Rosa, was the esthetician and said "you must be pregnant squishy" (she was a BIG fan of Finding Nemo when we worked together)

So I went home and took a test, I had taken a few dozen in my life and never saw anything special in the window. Normally I would stay in the bathroom just staring... Staring in vain, this time for some reason, I was totally uninterested after 20 seconds. I set it on the bathtub and went on about my day...

Jerry got home, we had dinner, got ready for bed and there we are... both brushing our teeth and I look down and see something I had never seen before.

















I am not the fainting type, but I did fall to the ground. It kinda went something like this:

Me: "Oh my god, Jerry look!"
Jerry: "Oh my god"
Me: "Oh my god"
(this went on for another round or two)
Me: Is this... are you... happy?"
Jerry: Hell Yes! Are you?
Me: (through tears) ARE YOU KIDDING? SO HAPPY!!!

Then we pulled ourselves up off the floor of our ultra tiny bathroom, got in bed and proceeded to not get any sleep at all, talking about how the rest of our lives had been changed in an instant.

So there you have it. The beginning of this blog. A blessing that came out of the blue. Serendipity.

So what you ask could be better than that? The beginning of the rest of our lives and the continuation of this crazy journey, of course!