Twenty-four Years Ago

I wasn't going to post about this day for fear of reprisal.

I have a hard time keeping track of who wants to be ignored on my blog and who doesn't mind being mentioned, of who wants to review pictures before they are posted and who doesn't care, who freaks out if their birthday is mentioned and who gets insulted if it is not.
Blogging about the family is sometimes more trouble than it's worth!
But I cannot let this day go by without at least a mention of the fact that twenty-four years ago this evening, our youngest son was born.
I remember calling the doctor's office the night before to tell them that I was in labor, I got the answering service and the woman asked if this was my first baby and when I answered, "No, my fifth", she said that I better get to the hospital ASAP because this one could just slip right out!

Well, TWENTY-TWO HOURS LATER he finally made his arrival into the world!
Sweet baby boy just wouldn't be rushed.

You know, Instigator, you're still like that!

("Instigator" really is not the name that's on his birth certificate, nor is it the name he was Baptized with, but I'm thinking maybe it should have been!
Actually, Ray and I had thought of the name Andrew early on in the pregnancy, but then later we thought of the name William, and for months and months before he was born he was William, then in the last few hours of labor we talked about it and suddenly we went back to Andrew.)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OUR BABY BOY!!!
Andrew Jachob (aka Instigator)


There is so much more I want to say, but I'll restrain myself.
(See now, that wasn't too terrible, was it?)