Thursday, August 27, 2009

What a phone ring brings

My brother Brian called last night to see if Phil or I could go over to his house while he took his wife to the hospital to have their third baby!! I love phone calls telling me that a baby is coming - it's so exciting and awesome.
But I discovered something not so exciting and awesome - that I can NOT sleep well without Phil at home. I tossed and turned for a couple hours and then woke up to every little noise.
At 3 am, I heard my bedroom door squeak open and was terrified ~ but it was only Andrew being "scared of the night". And since I was also "scared of the night", I told him to sleep in the bed with me. And we both slept well for the next 3 hours until the other kids started getting up.
I would normally be cranky and miserable from this lack of sleep, but I can't stop being happy because baby Clare was born last night!! I am an Aunt again for the 19th time :)
She is the baby sister to two brothers: Brogan, almost 4 and PJ, one. I know what it's like to have a girl after you have a couple boys, and I am so excited for my sister-in-law!!! I'll post a picture when I get one.
Hope you all are having just as exciting days!

9 comments:

  1. Congratulations!!! I love new babies! The one I am about to have will be #26 on my side of the family-gotta love big families!

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  2. Aw congrats! I love big families!

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  3. Wow! Congrats to Clare's family!

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  4. Congratulations Auntie!
    PRAISE GOD FOR THE GIFT OF NEW LIFE!

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  5. congrats for a new baby! those are the best!! and i'm totally with you.. w/out my hubby in bed... i CANNOT sleep at all!!

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  6. this is good news. Congratulations to the entire family!
    Welcome Clare!

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  7. OH MY WORD - 19?! Wow! Congratulations Auntie! And I can't sleep when Matt's not here either :)

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  8. I'm glad to learn I'm not the only one who sometimes sleeps better when my little ones are in the bed!

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  9. How exciting! Congratulations Auntie, 19 times over! And your kids are so lucky to have so many cousins!
    Clare is such a cute name, love it!

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