TWITLOL v1 i6
by Liz Anderson on Monday, 1 October 2007 at 00:02 ·
It was a Tuesday night not last week but the week before. I was chatting with people online and decided to head to bed early. This in itself was a bizarre phenomenon. As I lay there sleeping, I was awoken from my slumber by a phone call. For those of you who have never heard my ring tone, it makes me smile no matter the time of day I hear it. Answering my phone at approximately 12:34 a.m. I heard my brother. The conversation went something like this:
M: what are you doing?
Me: sleeping.
M: oh. Well Nicole just called me and she thinks it might be time.
Me: oh. Ok.
M: when do you work tomorrow?
Me: I don’t, it’s Wednesday.
M: that’s right.. My kid is smart.
Me: why?
M: well it’s my anniversary and my wife and I didn’t get to see each other but my daughter is calling me home early so I can see her – but not on out anniversary. And I don’t work tomorrow and you have the day off..
Me: I see. You’re right the kid is smart.
M: can you come over and watch Meg in case we need to go in to the hospital?
Me: yeah I’ll be there.
M: don’t get up yet I haven’t left work yet but I have someone coming in to close for me.
Me: ok.
M: oh but the rule is that you can’t sit and stare at Nicole.
Me: ok?
M: she says that is what I am going to do. She has been having contractions since 2:00 p.m. but didn’t tell me until now because she didn’t want me to sit there and stare at her.
Me: I’ll do my best.
M: ok I’m going to go. I have to stop and let the dogs out at Jan’s I’ll set out their food so if you need to go over there in the morning everything will be ready.
Me: ok see you in a bit.
So I laid there and thought about what I was going to pack so I could be presentable if I had to drop the kid off at school the next day as well as make it through the rest of my day. Soon the phone was ringing again.
M: Ok I’m on my way to Jan’s.
Me: ok. I’ll get up and get ready.
I packed my bag and headed out. it was now nearly 1:00 a.m. As I approached the interstate exit on 25th street, my phone started ringing again..
M: where are you?
Me: on 25th almost to the interstate.
M: ok well I am here. Call me when you get here.
Me: ok. Bye.
So a few minutes later I arrived at their place and walked to the patio door where I was assuming he would be there to let me in. He was not. So I wandered back toward my car. I decided to see if their cars were in the lot. I found Jan’s car.. Not really putting 2 and 2 together that Jan was out of town and this was why my brother had to check on the dogs.. Just then my phone rang again. It was my brother he was standing at the side door waiting for me. I went in crawled into the bed in the baby’s room and went to sleep only slightly aware of my brother and sister-in-law talking in the next room.
Around 2:30 a.m. I woke up to my brother setting the phone on the nightstand next to me saying, “we’re going in. I’ll call you and let you know if you need to bring Meg to school.” Like I wouldn’t figure it out if he was not there that I would need to take her to school.. He was clearly not thinking sanely. As it turned out, when I got up around 6:30 a.m. I wandered out to the living room to see/hear my brother snoring on the couch. The trip to the hospital had been relatively uneventful with only the viewing of Full House and America’s Funniest Home Videos before they were sent home.
I however still got to bring Meg to school the next morning as neither of them had really slept all night. Turns out my brother sat at stared at Nicole all night until he got kicked to the couch – just as she thought he would do.
Aside from the baby scare… My uncle Curt got married last weekend. It was a good time. I helped my sister with makeup for Judy (bride) and Bobbi Jo (maid of honor) then moved on to my duties pinning flowers. Jen Howard and I were in charge of that. Apparently we didn’t know what we were doing when we started but were quickly taught by the photographer. I made it through the day with out mangling my fingers with pinholes. In fact I only poked myself two times all day once was pinning my own flower – not too shabby – although, the one poke got infected and I had to amputate my middle finger at the second knuckle. Ok so not really but it was infected and it hurt for a bit.
Three days later my mom had hip surgery in Thief River Falls. Things seem to have gone well. I spent my Wednesday between VIP day in the AM with Meg at her school and then the remainder of my day with my mom in the hospital. Wednesday was not a good day for her – lots of ups and downs but we made it. Thursday things started going better which is good, as I had to be at work in Fargo and Julie was in Alexandria. By Friday it was time for mom to go home too! They really don’t waste time these days with getting people out of the hospital.
So my uncle has a new wife, my mom has a new hip and my brother is waiting on his new daughter. Somewhere I am intermingled amidst it all and loving it. For now I best close though as you never know when the next late night baby alert will come in…
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