3 Days Overdue

In case anybody was wondering, I haven’t been not posting because I’m busy caring for a newborn – alas, I am currently 3 days past due and still counting. I was 3 and 2 days early with the boys and 6 days late with Monica. Naturally, I was hoping that this little boy would be early to on-time like his brothers, rather than tardy like his big sister, but one doesn’t get to decide these things. However, there is a silver lining: thanks to his continuing failure to show, we have been able to attend and accomplish a number of things we would’ve had to pass on otherwise. We made it to the Kings Academy Dinner Theatre last Saturday, Parish Meeting on Sunday, cleaned up the house on Monday, kept it mostly clean all week in anticipation of this Saturday when we were all able to attend Judah’s first piano recital and immediately host a small, low-key cake and ice-cream birthday party for Monica! Pretty good for “Due-Week!” When  I was expecting Monica, we naively put faith in her showing up on or before her due date, and therefore blocked off about 2 weeks around my due date, essentially putting life on hold in expectation of having a newborn during most of that time. As a result, we missed most of the things going on (May is a busy month around here), and I for one, was nearly bored out of my mind during the 6 super-long days that we waited for her to show up past her due date! I decided that we were NOT going to do that this time, so I RSVPed, signed up for, and planned numerous activities during that same two week block, and it’s worked out swimmingly. Monica’s birthday party was the capstone – planned with the constant caveat of “only if we’re not in the hospital..”

Only, now all of the activities are pretty much over and all that’s left is the just the pinch from having Family Camp start 3 weeks from Sunday. And we’re still waiting. “I for one, am ready to have this baby now,” declared his father this afternoon. Ditto.