The Boss (And No, For Once I do NOT mean Bruce Springsteen)

The baby is officially a fetus! Weird. I think the fetus likes running a bit more than the embryo as I was able to run at a 9:13 pace last night for 10 minutes. I started at 10:00 pace for 10 minutes, followed by 9:30 pace for 10 and ended at 9:13. It reminded me of marathon training and those long slow runs. I'll spare you the metaphor of marathon training and pregnancy or marathon training and parenthood.

So after my whole diatribe yesterday about when to tell, when to tell, I ended up telling my boss yesterday. We have weekly meetings where I keep her updated on what I am all working on. We ended up talking about a grant proposal and talking about planning for July and August (due date month) so I thought it was a good time to spill the beans. I said, "{Boss's name}, I have to tell you something". She responded with "Oh no. You're leaving aren't you.". I started laughing. I said, I'm not leaving, but I am pregnant.

Now my boss is a pretty even keeled woman. I love her for this. I can be totally overwhelmed with work and go into her office and leave feeling completely calm five minutes later. Office therapy - she should charge for it. People, she was downright GIDDY when I told her. Which in turn, made me giddy. AHHH! Once we calmed down, I told her that I really wasn't planning on telling the rest of the office or our director or co-director, and that I wasn't really sure how I was suppossed to go about telling the director and co-director. She said that she would set up a meeting for the four of us to discuss projects anyway and that I could tell them then. She told me to be prepared that they would ask me what I planned on doing re: work once the baby came. (Oh the $50,000 question). I told her that I didn't know my plan, but that I definitely planned on coming back to work in some capacity. She reassured me that whatever I decided would be fine and if after the baby came I really decided not to come back at all, she said that if I did want to come back even a year or two later, something would probably be here for me. I felt really good after our conversation and really supportive. During the past 2 1/2 years of working here, I knew that the office was really family friendly - almost to a point where it irked me from time to time. But I always told myself that someday I would reap these benefits too. Looks like that someday is drawing near!