It's official: Trouble is the last arrival of the 9 babies from our baby prep class. We spent 2 hours a week for 8 weeks with the other couples learning things Clint claimed (afterward) he could have learned from an outline in a 2 hour class. I think I probably got more out of it (which is good, since I'll be doing most of the work, right?). At least we got to meet some other first-time parents to start building a network.
I saw today on Facebook that the other couple due in mid-September had their baby early last week. This means Trouble is last! Clint made a point of bending down to the belly and telling little T not to worry that s/he is the last one. Somebody always has to be last, right? For some reason I'm thinking of the Chilean miners stuck thousands of feet below the earth... it'll take months to dig a hole to rescue them. Once they start extraction, somebody has to be the last one out, which means for a while they'll be the only person stuck down at the bottom of the mine where they've spent the past 4? months in the dark.
I was a full 2 weeks late to the party we call LIFE so I shouldn't be surprised that Trouble hasn't shown up early. Today, 9/11, was the original Trouble due date. Trouble is now officially "due" on the 15th, which is Wednesday. I just checked my calendar and sometime ages ago I just wrote "baby due" on the 15th. ha!
Some friends predicted that Trouble would arrive yesterday, others thought today. The latest prediction on the timeline we have is hovering around the 23rd/24th, meaning our little Virgo would actually be a Libra, which would be a-ok with me, since I already live with a Virgo and the house tends to be too organized and tidy for me. It'd be ok to have someone around whose goal in life is to "witness the importance of cooperation and harmony" nice! Fair and balanced, our own little Fox News analyst? Maybe not. Of course, another Virgo would be fine too. At least then I'd have two people to clean up after me.
Ah, "...the last shall be first" in some calendar or other! It's a BIG decision --that is, which day to make your "day of days" for that all important birthday! I'll have to repeat the wisdom of an old neighbor concerning Kelly's "late" arrival. She said, "When the apple is ready, it will fall from the tree."
ReplyDeleteWe'll soon see when that will be!