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[abilouise]

I got my first doula client! I mean the first person who read my listing and called me up and decided that the fact that I have no birth experience is actually ok. Wahoo! I called her up ready to do the whole "let me refer you to someone experienced with VBAC/ with more experience/etc" spiel and found myself instead sort of sputtering that yes I was available and we should set up an initial meeting and all that. I'm a bit excited and totally scared, but I have this problem with transitions and changes that while they are totally fascinating and I crave them, they also make me at least temporarily freeze, but I have learned that this happens to me no matter how prepared I am to do something and so the fact that I am scared is not actually good information about how prepared I am or how well I will do something. Anyway, this makes me happy. Several other things are making me really happy right now, some of them are obvious, like I just got back from a long weekend at Acadia and taught Jake how to cross-country ski and he likes it now and I'm still in a post-exercise high, some of them silly things like my new hands-free headset for my phone, some of them are symbolic, like the way that I negotiated returning a business-thing that I wasn't happy with on the phone without either being an asshole or losing, and some of them are small but vital, like getting really good sleep last night.