An unusually usual day

This morning was not like the previous two at all. 

Unlike Wednesday and Thursday when we were expecting a call from the hospital and had everything cleaned, packed and ready to go; unlike the previous two days when everyone was showered, dressed and fed and waiting for the phone to ring - today was not like that at all.

Today I woke up as usual just before 7:00, and as usual I walked down to the basement to check my email and Facebook before having my morning shower. As usual by the time I came back up stairs the boys were groggily watching Disney Junior in the living room in their pajamas. As usual there was a mess in the kitchen from where Harry tried to get himself a snack before Mommy or Daddy could help him. As usual Jo was still in bed listening either for my footsteps to signal she could doze knowing someone was with the kids or for the sound of fighting between brothers signaling that she would need to get up an intervene. As usual, nothing unusual was going on.

I had made the decision the night before that I wasn't going to continue to waste my precious vacation time waiting around for a call from the hospital when it would be much more useful to our family once that call had come and our daughter had arrived. So this morning, as usual I was getting ready for work.

What was unusual this morning was the fact that our phones weren't working. We have phone through our cable company and it seems that someone while digging yesterday for some construction project of unknown origins or intent had cut our cable line rendering our home phone useless. What was unusual this morning was that I decided to go for a long walk before heading to work to clear my head of the previous couple of days of frustration and perhaps to spend some quality time with God before getting back to the grind. What was unusual this morning was that for the first day in weeks we weren't all geared up and ready to have a baby.

So I went for my morning walk, enjoying a beautiful summer morning and I got about half a block away from my house when my phone rang. It was Jo - the hospital called and they wanted us in right away, and it all started again.

By the time we got everything organised and out the door, and dropped off the boys and started toward Regina it was about 8:30 We got to the hospital around 11:00 and started to go through the motions of getting induced. By 1:30 the deed was done and now we're waiting; waiting for labour to start; waiting for something to change; waiting for the usual to become considerably more unusual.