9 is a good number, and a GOOD age.
I remember the day she arrived in our lives.
M woke up in the pre-dawn hours and went into the ensuite bathroom
in our house in Langley, I was awoken to her calls for help.
Her water had broken ALL OVER the BATHROOM.
We called the mid-wife, M got in the shower,
and her mom cleaned the bathroom while we waited for the Mid-wife.
Later after the Mid-wife came and checked her and said
"everything was fine", M went down stairs and we waited
with CBC overnight playing on the radio while contractions came and went.
By 7:00 the contractions were closer together,
the mid-wife was called as M went back into the shower ...
... later, at around 7:50 the Mid-wife quietly came down the stairs and said:
"Get the van ready and as close to the door as you can ..."
WE RUSHED TO THE HOSPITAL AS FAST AS WE
LEGALLY COULD ... we whipped M out and into a wheelchair
and into the hospital.
Aside from an argument with a self-appointed traffic cop
about where I could and couldn't park ...
HE IGNORED MY VERY PREGNANT WIFE GETTING OUT OF THE VAN
AS HE WARNED ME THAT I WAS IN A 'NO PARKING' SPOT !!!
Eventually I got parked in a proper spot, and made it in to the labour room,
had I been five minutes later, I would have missed
the arrival of my second daughter:
Who came into the world on May 20th 1999!!!Happy Birthday my Darling!!!
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