18 years ago today....
I was four days past my due date and feeling absolutely miserable. I'd found out I was pregnant again just a few days before jen's birthday. with a due date in July, that would put the age difference between my children at 20 months. A due date of July 4th -- we referred to the child as "Yankee Doodle Dandy." Jen had been born a day before my due date...but that Independence Day, as we stood on the balcony of our apartment and watched the fireworks all over the neighborhood, i knew that my second child would be born "late". on July 8, a warm, sunny Wednesday afternoon, Drew and I strapped jen into her car seat and drove to my obstetrician's office for my weekly appointment. I fully intended to ask him to induce labor...I had had enough... ...and he told me that I was already in labor -- despite not having felt so much as a single contraction -- and that the baby would be born tonight! we had just enough time to drop Jen off at my paren...