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Well, John and I are officially going public about the fact that we will be parents somewhere around April 12th. We had an appointment with the midwives on Wednesday, got to hear the heartbeat, and since I'm 13 weeks, we're filling people in gradually.
The most exciting baby related news was that I accidentally found an awesome diaper bag today. I've been telling John that I want to find a cool, hip diaper bag, but the ones I've found online have been atrociously expensive. But we were in TJMaxx today and stumbled into the baby section, and there, hidden on the back of a shelf, were really awesome Asian designed diaper bags. Now the one I liked the design on best was not terribly practical and way too girly for John to have to lug around if need be. But there were these others that were kind of messenger bag style with gorgeous Asian patterns on the flap. We opted for the golden one. It is beautiful and it totally made my day to find it for 25 bucks.
Now baby news is not the only news I have. I'm also going public about the fact that I just got offered a new job, which I'll be starting in about a month, give or take depending on their background check procedures (social service agencies require criminal checks, fingerprints, etc.). I'll be working with kids and families involved with therapeutic foster care. I think I will like it much more than what I'm doing now, I pretty much make my own schedule, it's full-time, and it actually pays pretty well for this field in this geographic region. I didn't exactly tell them about the pregnancy while interviewing, but I don't feel I was obligated to do so. I came close, to be honest, but it wound up being between me and another person and I didn't want to throw it off because I knew they really liked me. People aren't allowed to discriminate, but that doesn't mean they don't look to find some other reason. Also, I wasn't even far enough along that I was telling all my friends so why would I tell a complete stranger when I was still at risk of something going wrong? I did tell them when they called to ask me to come in for the fingerprinting and my future supervisor seemed very nice about it. She genuinely asked me if what I wanted was to start a new job at this time and I told her yes, more than ever. She seemed perfectly satisfied with that response, perhaps needing some reassurance that I wasn't going to just bail.
Oh, and for anyone that thinks I'm crazy with this timing, I was very, very, very likely going to be getting laid off the day I told my current supervisor that I had gotten this new position. I was keeping all this between me and John because I just didn't want to jinx any of it.
The most exciting baby related news was that I accidentally found an awesome diaper bag today. I've been telling John that I want to find a cool, hip diaper bag, but the ones I've found online have been atrociously expensive. But we were in TJMaxx today and stumbled into the baby section, and there, hidden on the back of a shelf, were really awesome Asian designed diaper bags. Now the one I liked the design on best was not terribly practical and way too girly for John to have to lug around if need be. But there were these others that were kind of messenger bag style with gorgeous Asian patterns on the flap. We opted for the golden one. It is beautiful and it totally made my day to find it for 25 bucks.
Now baby news is not the only news I have. I'm also going public about the fact that I just got offered a new job, which I'll be starting in about a month, give or take depending on their background check procedures (social service agencies require criminal checks, fingerprints, etc.). I'll be working with kids and families involved with therapeutic foster care. I think I will like it much more than what I'm doing now, I pretty much make my own schedule, it's full-time, and it actually pays pretty well for this field in this geographic region. I didn't exactly tell them about the pregnancy while interviewing, but I don't feel I was obligated to do so. I came close, to be honest, but it wound up being between me and another person and I didn't want to throw it off because I knew they really liked me. People aren't allowed to discriminate, but that doesn't mean they don't look to find some other reason. Also, I wasn't even far enough along that I was telling all my friends so why would I tell a complete stranger when I was still at risk of something going wrong? I did tell them when they called to ask me to come in for the fingerprinting and my future supervisor seemed very nice about it. She genuinely asked me if what I wanted was to start a new job at this time and I told her yes, more than ever. She seemed perfectly satisfied with that response, perhaps needing some reassurance that I wasn't going to just bail.
Oh, and for anyone that thinks I'm crazy with this timing, I was very, very, very likely going to be getting laid off the day I told my current supervisor that I had gotten this new position. I was keeping all this between me and John because I just didn't want to jinx any of it.
