Happy Birthday, Jeremy

Happy Birthday to our son Jeremy!  He has made our lives exciting and crazy from day one!!  Here's the story of the day he was born as I posted it on FB last night.  I've written these stories before here on my blog, so you faithful readers probably heard them at least once or twice before.  

I was as "crunchy granola" as you could get back in those days, and so were my friends. Home births were all the rage in our circles, and I was determined to have this baby at home. And I did - in our family room, as planned. Jeremy made his appearance soon after midnight, with our doctor and nurse in attendance, Dick by my side, and my friend Elta Nissley watching our other two sleeping children in the next room. We celebrated afterward with food I had prepared ahead of time, and woke up Lisa and Anthony to meet their new baby brother.

After a few hours, the house was quiet. Everyone had left. Dick was sleeping in the living room with the other children, I was in bed in the family room, marveling over my newborn son. And suddenly there was a loud crash outside. Obviously a car accident, but it didn't sound too serious. I sat there in my bed, imagining that our house was probably the only one on the street with a light on downstairs. I was sure someone would come knocking on the family room door. (Remember there were no cell phones in 1980.) Dick didn't hear a thing in his exhausted deep sleep! Thankfully, I soon heard a siren and knew that someone else had apparently put in a call.

Over that time I was advertising drapes in an ad in the newspaper, because we had just redone the family room and had gotten new ones. On Valentines Day I had taken a call about the drapes. A lady was interested in them and wondered if she could come to see them the next day at 2:00. I told her she could, not realizing that I would be going into labor in a few hours. I didn't even tell her I was expecting a baby.

So the next day the lady did come at 2:00 to see the drapes. Imagine her surprise when I also showed her the new baby I'd had overnight, hahahaha!!