My Single Mom Life

At 6:30am, Sebastian and I rode down the 2 sets of elevators at the Doubletree Suites and walked outside to find another limousine SUV waiting for us.
NBC goes all out for their guests man, dark tinted windows on the limo service SUVs they sent for us for every single ride we took anywhere into and out of this whole adventure.
The ride from the hotel to the NBC studios wasn't far at all, just a few city blocks, and he dropped us off right in front and said that someone would be at the door to get us in just a few minutes.
Not even 2 minutes later, 2 NBC interns came out to greet us and bring us into the studios.
As we're walking down the halls to the green room, we saw Matt Lauer talking to some producers and he introduced himself to us, said how exciting it was for us to be there, that this story was amazing to start with, and then I called, he said that everyone was just blown away by it.

We were taken into the green room where the interns told us that someone from hair and makeup would be down to get me in a few minutes, and to just have a seat, relax, have some coffee or eat something if we wanted to.
While Sebastian and I were sitting there waiting and watching the local NBC news, (the Today show hadn't started yet, it was only about 6:45am) a man walked in and sat down.
I recognized him but for the life of me I could not recall his name.
It was Chuck Todd, he is the NBC News Chief White House Correspondent, NBC News Political Director, and Contributing Editor of 'Meet the Press'.
I knew I recognized him! haha
The interns told us that we were here on like a really huge news day, the United Nations is having a big summit meeting, and Benjamin Netanyahu was already in the building, secret service agents were everywhere, and so for me to not be surprised if there are certain areas where I would not be allowed to go.
I was totally blown away already, 2 huge name people in the building, 1 of them sitting less than 3 feet away from me.
Ack!

Hair and makeup came to get me, I had to leave Sebastian in the green room, and off I went up a couple flights of stairs and down a hallway where I met Al Roker, and then was taken into Meredith Vieira's dressing room where her hair and makeup ladies fixed me up.
Everyone keeps saying how good I looked, well it's thanks to them.
They did an amazing job making my hair look that awesome because believe me, on it's own in the humidity that was going on, my hair did NOT look that good when I walked in.
As I was sitting there with a giant curler in my hair and getting my face done, a camera guy/producer came in and said he needed me for those 2 shadow shots that they did, to sort of keep my face hidden until it was time to surprise Joanne, Gary, and Randy with my entrance.
So I went down the hall and into Studio 1A which is the kitchen area, the area where they do all of the cooking segments, and I sat in a chair, they did the 1st shadow shot and then we sat and waited.
While sitting waiting, Giada De Laurentiis came in and started getting things going for her segment, the food was already being cooked, there were about 10 people in there helping her, so that was really cool to see.
Then the reporter who did the switched embryos story, Amy Roebuck, came in to get through to the other part of the studio where she was going to report on that story.
Sebastian got to meet her down in the green room when Matt Lauer was in there talking to him, (to Sebastian) so he was totally psyched about meeting everyone too.
He actually got to talk to Al Roker the longest, and he said Al told him a few jokes, so Sebastian really had the most awesome time there.

After I did the shadow shots, I was taken back to hair and makeup so they could finish, and then we went down to the studio where Gary, Randy and Joanne were waiting, our story was about to air.
I was so nervous, all of these people were standing in the studio waiting to see this happen.
All of these other NBC reporters, camera and crew people, and Sebastian was also standing there with a bunch of people who I assumed were other family members of my long lost brothers and sister, they were.
I started to get choked up but stopped myself, I was NOT going to cry on live national tv! haha
Meredith did the intro and then called me out.
I was also really nervous about this whole thing because of my whole spine/head/neck thing, I can't raise my head, I knew it was going to look weird to people, so that was what the majority of my nervousness was about.
Joanne was already crying, I felt so bad for her, she knew all of these years who I was and she couldn't tell me, so I hugged her, told her that I always knew, she said she always knew but she couldn't tell me and that she was so sorry, I told her it was ok, and then I turned to meet my brothers.
I was just so excited, I had brothers, I mean, i have an older brother Mike, but he's not my bio-brother, these guys are, and all I could think to say was "Hi guys!" and I hugged them both.
Meredith said hello and I hugged her too. D'oh! hahahah ha!
I couldn't help myself, I mean, without NBC, without Meredith reporting this story on Tuesday morning, I would have never known they were looking for me, so I just felt like I owed her a hug for doing this.
You're probably not supposed to hug the Today show reporters, but I couldn't help it. hahahaha
We did the segment and then were taken down to the lobby so we could all talk and hang out for a bit before going outside.
It seems that the crowd outside wanted to meet us all.
That was kinda weird feeling, but eh.
But standing in the lobby and talking to each other, looking at each other, I saw my face in theirs.
I could see where my kids got some of their features.
Sebastian, Gary, and Randy look a lot alike, Sebastian looks like Joanne too, well he looks like me, so of course he's gonna look like her, (open these next 2 links side by side in new windows or tabs) Joanne really looks like me, and there's so much about Joanne and I that is alike, it's kinda scary.

There's so much more to tell, and I don't want these posts to be wicked long so I'm trying to break them up into smaller bits.
Part 3 coming soon!