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Oh, the Places She’s Gone!

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by Susan McBride

I was thinking today about all the places I’ve gone with Emily already, and she hasn’t even been born. And I don’t just mean trips taken, though she and I will be heading to Kansas City this weekend where I’ll speak at that Komen affiliate’s Pink Promise Brunch.

No, Emily hasn’t been to Paris or even Disney World in my belly (although I went to the World’s Fair in New York when I was in the womb, and my mother still likes to tell me how being pregnant allowed her to cut in front of everyone in lines–see, I was helpful even before birth!).

But Emily has been in a hyperbaric chamber (that was in February after our old furnace leaked carbon monoxide into our house)….
     
She’s been on TV (she already loves the folks at “Great Day St. Louis,” I can tell)….
She helped me teach a workshop at the Missouri Writers’ Guild’s conference and got to meet bestselling author Claire Cook (Emily’s secretly hoping Claire will write a sequel to Must Love Dogs called Must Love Cats)….
 
She was with me when I spoke at the Maplewood Library (and she received two knitted baby hats from Mary Garrett, one with a Blue Note on it and another that looks like the top of a little red apple)….
And when I received the “Survivor of the Year” award from the St. Louis chapter of Susan G. Komen for the Cure (pink is Emily’s favorite color)….
 Then she was feted with gifts at a baby shower (“Oh, Mom!” she sighed as I took a bite of a teething ring, just to check it out)….

I just hope she’s having fun, doing all these things before her due date. As much as she kicks, I’d say she’s having a ball. Or maybe she’s trying to tell me, “Quit talking so much and moving around so much, Mom!  I’m trying to get a little rest here!”

So long as she’s not annoyed by the clickety-clack of my keyboard since I’ve got revisions still to finish, a nonfiction e-book for HarperCollins to write about my breast cancer experience, and a rewrite of my young adult mystery for Random House. All due this year. Kind of like Emily (who should be making her grand entrance in about eight weeks…although she could show up in as soon as five weeks, said my doctor yesterday!).