One year ago today, November 5, 2008.
My car had been in the shop. It had shut down two days prior as I pulled out of the driveway to go to work. After weeks of wanting to see my baby, I prayed frantically that he would not show up now when we had no way to get him home. We picked it up the night before, all fixed (except for breaking the window motor on the way home). What a relief. The same day we picked the car up was election day. Obama won. That night I woke up around 2:30 with contractions. I lay there for a while assessing the situation. They weren't very strong and were very sporadic. I got up and went to watch some tv in the living room. Sleep was definitely out of the question. When it came time for work I decided I couldn't sit around the house all day timing contractions. I called a friend at the office and made sure she could drive me home around lunch time so I could come in a tie up a few loose ends. Call me crazy but they would have been on the mind until I returned. I went into work, still with contractions, but nothing like they had been the night before. They were lessening. Odd, I thought, there are suppose to get worse as labor progresses. I went home at lunch time planning on relaxing by taking a bath. You know, enjoy my last few hours of rest. Ha. Once I got my bath ready, a truck drove by the house. The dog went nuts and never stopped barking. To top it off my bathtub seemed to be loosing my bath water. Forget it. Who needs relaxing? I probably wouldn't be going to the hospital anytime soon anyway. When Adam came home from work he went to put his clothes in the hamper in the garage. That's when he noticed the garage was flooded. Something had happened to a pipe in the bathroom and all that bath water I knew was disappearing was actually dumping into my garage. Adam called his dad and their plumber friend to come by in the morning and fix the pipes. Only having one bathroom, getting this fixed was definitely an immediate concern. As we had a Dr's appt in the morning, we called Adam's grandmother and asked her to come by while we were gone to let the plumber in. After that fiasco, we settled down for the night....