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Aug. 27, 2005 Well I've been threatening this and it's finally come to pass. I'm now officially a GRANDPA. Yeah, with all bragging rights attached and pertaining thereof. It's been coming all year and now here I am. We started stork watch about the end of July. My daughter Holly started having mild contractions and her doctor put her on bed rest and occasionally in the hospital for observation. I'm told this is normal with twin. Yes, I said twins. Anyway, all year I've been telling her not to have her babies on her brother's birthday which is the 13th. Here I'm getting ahead of myself. All the end of July and the start of August it's been a matter of her going to the doctor, going to the hospital, and going home for a few more days. It was like riding around on a crazy merry-go-round. All during this time I was busy with work, the normal functions of life, and the daily Holly updates. I was also busy going to my own doctors and going through medical tests.(By the way I'm having more surgery on the 29th) Well, I went to work on the 12th thinking nothing of it. Not even SUSPECTING anything was amiss. Silly me. After work I did what I normally do, I went for coffee at Denny's. That's where my daughter called me to let me know they were on the way to the hospital.(Knows me pretty well, don't she?) So here I am driving like a crazy person. Okay some people think I'm crazy anyway, but that's beside the point. I drove over to my mother's and traded cars, went by McDonalds to get something to eat, and racing down first I-57 and then Rt.37 into Mt. Vernon. Strangely enough I didn't stop to change out of my work uniform. So I get to the hospital all dressed in my Pizza Hut uniform and find my daughter waiting to go into surgery for a C section. This is obviously the real thing. About an hour after I got there they took her to surgery and all we could do was sit around and wait. Me and all her husband's family. They are nice people. I've worked with some of them in an earlier life. We were standing outside the nursery when the door opened and here came Patrick, the babies father, with two bundles and a grin(I swear)from ear to ear. Something which only a father can understand.(Mothers at the same time are usually too tired to smile that big..)Beautiful! Then I realized...it was then the 13th. My son's birthday. She'd done it to me after all. Well, who cares. Lily Renee(4 lb.10 oz.)and Hannah Lynn(5 lb.14 oz.)Smith entered the world about a quarter till 4 in the morning and were greeting us with loud squals. Greatest sound I'd heard in years. And just think...I'd been in the same hospital on the same floor just 14 short years earlier. The only downer to the whole thing was expressed by my daughter when she was in a recovery room. She cried a little and expressed the wish that her mother could have been there(my wife died in 1997). As I told her...how did we know she wasn't there? I'm sure wherever my wife is she was watching. Now the good part begins. The spoiling. ------------ About the author Lee Zelhart: He is a proud graduate of McKendree College in Lebanon, IL., The author of The Ghost of the Cavalier, the father of two children and the very new PROUD grandfather of twins Lily and Hannah. He is also working on a new book The Case of the Grinning Cat. Email: graphicsdoctor1@sbcglobal.net Tell a friend about this site! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com and are not allowed to be posted on other websites. ARTICLE THIEVES WILL BE PROSECUTED! |
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