To my great surprise, it was a florist delivery dude with a gorgeous arrangement just for me! But who could they be from? None other than my darling husband, who is busy working his butt off while I lounge around at home just waiting to go into labor. I tried to call him to thank him, but he's super busy with a big real estate closing. So, I'm posting this so everyone else knows how tickled I am that Corey recognized the big life change we're going through. The card says, "First day of a new life! Love, Corey". Awwwww...
Yes, it's fun to think that I don't have to go to work anymore, but it's also a big shift in my identity. My new boss will be a demanding little thing without the ability to communicate to me exactly what she wants or needs, and I'm going to struggle with the worry that we're putting too big of a burden on Corey and wasting all of my expensive education. We're happy with our choices so far, but it's going to be an interesting next few years to see how it all plays out.
Connie, Duke and Pacey all seem happy that I'm home to hang out with them. They even promised to try to shed less and behave better. We'll see how they like it when there's a little baby competing for what they consider to be their belly-rub time.
2 comments:
You are welcome for the flowers - you will go from being the pregnant wife to the mother of a child, and you are right - you are no longer working. In no way, however, was your education wasted - your Duke undergrad experience - the things you learned, absorbed and experienced has been integrated into your unconciousnes and your personality - it has helped make you into the wonderful woman I am in love with and has contributed highly to our quality of life. It has helped make you into the unbelievably engaging, entertaining, and challenging (in a good way) wife, and will help make you into a very able mother. As for your legal education, it has value far beyond the simple procurement of salary. It has helped provide you with complex and elite analytical skills, and will help you help me in my career going forward. It also provides an excellent base for a career should you want one in the future.
As for being a burden on me with my job - no sweat - you are going to be doing the heavy lifting in the Tennessee Stringer family for years to come, and will have the most responsibilty - the raising of Charlotte.
My hat is off to you, Niki, for who you are, who you are about to become, and what you are about to do. I know, without a doubt, that you are the most able of us to take on this day to day challenge!
Love,
Corey
what a lovely posting and comment!! Little Charlotte is quite lucky to have such wonderful parents!
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