SOM 7/28/98

Kiss Me, Kate

Nancy Lee Grahn is estatic about motherhood. "I thought I was happy before," she says. "But you just can't imagine that you could love something so much, or that a baby could look at you and smile and give you so much. It's heaven."

That's not to say that being a mom is easy. Grahn laughs as she recalls her first Mother's Day. "It was so exciting to have people saying 'Happy Mother's Day' to me finally, but I think I went into a coma," she jokes. "It was during the last leg of not having any sleep for something like 2 months, between the Bachanalia Ball and the Nurses' Ball at work. Friends of mine held a special mother's day for me and I practically fell asleep in my eggs. Then I had a ton of lines to learn for the next day, so I said to my friend, 'You're on for an hour (with daughter Kate) while I learn my lines.' I went upstairs, read one line and was gone - they found me with the script over my head."

1