P365 - 2015 - Day 16 - twelve years ago
Twelve years ago today I was pregnant with twins who were not due for another 6 weeks. I was already on medical leave from work and spent the day sitting at home reading a book (well after taking my new van to the police station to have two infant car seats installed while getting yelled out by the officer for driving myself over there) I was not quite 34 weeks pregnant but looked like I was ready to go any day... and as it turned out.... later that night, my water broke sending us rushing to the hospital more than 6 weeks ahead of schedule. This began the most wild ride of our lives...we just had to wait a few days to meet the stars of the show. My doctor was determined to hold off my labor, at the very least get me to 34 weeks, pump me full of steroids for the babies' immature lungs, give me antibiotics since my water broke, and make us wait it out. I can look back now and say we had no earthly idea what we were getting into. :-) Sure we had tried to get pregnant for a long time, we had spent years planning even before these past 34 weeks, the room was ready, the clothes were bought, I had been showered with gifts (even though I was actually about to miss a shower my friends were throwing the next day...), and we even had names. But at that very moment, we had no idea what life had in store starting with the next 48 hours. It was exciting and scary and surreal. Twelve years ago I was in a hospital waiting to meet two of the most important people in my life.
So in celebration of this day, My Wonderful Husband and I went out to lunch today and when I opened my fortune cookie, I thought this was an appropriate fortune for both today and the today of 12 years ago as well as every day in between. Twelve years ago today our life was sitting on the edge of a big change and more than ever before that day, since then, I have been trying to take care of every moment.
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