I woke up at 6 today, after a night of restless sleep. My husband is gone and I hit a bird while I was driving home. It flew into my windshield. Birdshield. It was a male cardinal. My neighbors are fighting and yelling loudly about it - whatever it is that they're fighting about, not the bird. Everyone has left after the weekend. My recital is done. Finished. Even though I feel a little on the empty end of things, I feel really free, relaxed, and maybe even refreshed.
And then THIS! Wow! Go, Mara, go! I'll see you soon, I'm quite sure.
Well, I suppose we could all get excited about this or we could all be happy for Mara and Mark and pray for an easy and helathy delivery, or we could go haywire and get all anxious even though we have no control over the events about to happen in the next day or so. I am going to relax as I will soon be a grandfather for the first time and I've been really looking forward to it for a while now. I do hope each and every one who is waiting for the new baby will be able to get some sleep and relax a bit tonite. It is quite an enjoyable event to give birth for the whole family. It is a lot of work for Mara and the baby. Mark will plain be exhausted from all this new stuff he'll have to change his life for. Isn't it marvelous!?
Dustin ... it IS marvelous!!!
Kristen ... parallels? -- My husband is leaving on Monday (for 2-1/2 weeks in Panama), and I hit a cat last night. On a 50 mph stretch of road, and it was a black cat. I'd never. I didnt't see it. It was a black cat (which made me pray that it was in fact the domestic variety, not the kind with a pretty white stripe - after a few seconds without detecting the tell-tale odor, I was very relieved for my car, yet stricken by a twisted knot in my gut for the child to whom this cat belonged). I pray that it was instant. But it jarted out from the side of the road, and there were cars in the opposite lane as well as behind me. Wow. I'm relieved that I was able to tell someone. I am a cat lover and there's no way I could pull that story out, and "hey, guess what! I hit a cat!" It would just be weird. Thanks for the segue.
And I'm sorry that you're feeling "empty" (that's a great way to describe it - unfortunately a relatively common feeling for me, too). Now we have other things to occupy our minds .... M & M & babyM. You'll see the baby long before I will .... kiss that baby for me!!!!
Kiss it, I will!
And, wow, sorry to hear about the cat incident. I've killed quite a few birds on the road (there's something about me, I swear - they just fly into my car. Only once did I literally run one over, every other time, it's splat-into-the-windshield/bumper/hood/etc.), but never had I had the misfortune of killing an animal that could have been someone's pet. That's such a sad thing to think about, yet, it happens.
Anyways, back to happy baby thoughts, thoughts of happy babies. :)
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