My youngest was born…River Hazel McDonald. It doesn’t seem that long ago. I can remember that day quite vividly. Luckily it was a Sunday. Early in the morning, my water broke and I knew things were happening…so I woke up Christopher and said we should wake up the kids and call my mom. Then we called my mother-in-law, who lives in Maryland. Once my mother arrived, we chatted and she told us to get going to the hospital. But I wanted to stay and talk some more. I figured the less time at the hospital, the better. Then I decided I needed to make a fresh cup of coffee, so that when my mother-in-law arrived there would be fresh coffee. About a half hour later, my mother said we had to go right then or we’d give her a heart attack…so off we went. Well, thank goodness we did leave then because on our way to the hospital..things started to speed up and I almost thought we wouldn’t make it! Without going into all the details….twenty minutes later…..little River was born!
