I came "out" at work today! I write an internal newsletter for our office every other week, so the plan was to put a little announcement in Monday's saying "Congratulations to Christy Bland who is expecting twin grandbabies in early October." Well, I started thinking today and was pretty much like, what the hell, let's just get this out of the way today. It's becoming harder and harder to hide my belly anyway, so today seemed like a good day.
So I went with the same plan and put the announcement in the newsletter, but instead of printing and distributing it on Monday, I went ahead and did it today.
The play-by-play, in case you are interested:
So I printed all the letters (of course the printer ran out of paper in the process) -meanwhile, I'm sweating up a storm and literally shaking from nerves- I put a copy in everyone's mailbox and then take a copy straight to my friend Darci, who also works for Christy. I hand the newsletter to Darci and point to my announcement. She reads it, looks up at me and says, "I don't get it." So I say, "Christy is going to have twin grandbabies." We both start to tear up, and head in to congratulate Christy who immediately starts crying.
Well, the news spread like wildfire at that point. I don't know how, I don't know who, but people starting coming out of the woodwork! I mean 10 people huddled outside Christy's door congratulating us. It was pretty cool. A few even started to tear up a bit- very touching.
Moving on... everyone was so happy for us and I got so many nice emails to boot. I think I'll make a Facebook announcement in the next day or so.
Maybe now it will start to sink in that this is real!
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