The day has finally arrived--LEVERAGE. It took a long time for Greg to convince me that Kindsay should have a cell phone. After finding a text she sent from MY phone to my realtor "will you send me a picture of your daughter"...I was so against it...me..a pedophile? geez. There was no way that I wanted to be held responsible for the mass emotional destruction and nerve damage caused by Kindsay around the clock. But, I broke down.
Kindsay thought 16 was it...she was finally going to get one. Nope, I kept saying to Greg. Greg then appeals to my softer side, which with Kindsay it's near the surface but still needs scratching away to unveil.
"Yvette, she's been marking the calendar for a year now, she's researched all the phones, she's talked about this every day forever, she has few things in life to bring her joy. We have to get her a phone."
Fine.
Got her a Galaxy S2...it's nicer than mine, my husbands, and all the services are in place. Now, to give it to her.
Sixteen years ago yesterday I gave birth. I had a false alarm once before, so when I woke Greg at 2AM on Oct 2, 1996, he told me to call him from the hospital if it's a go. Yes, he was serious. We lived 3 minutes from St. Agnes, so he didn't find a problem with it. After giving him a form of hell in labor, he took me once my mom came to watch Rebekah.
The doctor said Kindsay would be delivered in less than an hour. Oh no, I said, I want drugs! I spent 12 hours in labor with Bek without drugs, I wasn't going to spend a minute with this delivery. Okay--it'll push the delivery back an hour...uuummmm -- DO IT.
The needle is lifted in the air behind me and I watch Greg's face turn from "what the h*ll is going on" to "what the %#$@^ is that?!!??" My gown slipped revealing my whole natural self to the entire staff which then turned his face to "ahhhhhhhhh!!"...of course a woman in labor willingly hands her body to everyone else, as long as they get the stinkin' kid OUT. right?
But it was the point during delivery when the nurse yelled at Greg to grab my leg and put it over my head that I thought I was going to lose him. He probably only got my leg over my head because he fainted into it while helping the nurse. As fast as Kindsay can buckle a dog into an upright carseat, she was out. We were overjoyed, we didn't know it was a girl. My in-laws, my parents, siblings from both sides--it was a party in the recovery room. Until the doctor came in and expressed his concerns and need to test her for Down Syndrome. All was quiet.
And the rest is history. No really...read the previous posts.
She got her phone alright, but not without a little torture from me. I told her that the gift she was getting from me was the party. She had 3 girlfriends come and all our family. She sat down at the pizza parlor and immediately her legs were shaking, her eyes were flitting. Alright, go ahead and open your gifts. Like the hurricane that swept Dorothy away, Kindsay had opened every envelope, not even counting the money that fell onto her lap. Only stacked it up and smelled it. The money literally stuck to her nose for a good 3 minutes. She finally opened her purse, gave one last smell good-bye and tucked the money away. $140...um, buying your own stuff for a while girlie! I let the whole party go by, and then I arranged for Rebekah to call. The phone was buried in my purse in tissue in a bag, so I pulled it out and could hear the ringing. I put it up to Kindsay's face and said, "what is that ringing?" It was seconds before she yanked the bag, pulled the phone out of the box, and had the phone flying through the air landing in 3 pieces. "A phone! I got a phone! Oh my gosh, I think I'm going to cry! Oh oh oh oh...get the phone, is it okay?" panic, mania, anxiety--all of it shooting through the roof of Me 'N' Ed's. We got the phone back together and into her hands. It was so fun to watch. We all waited for that moment all evening.
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