New Arrivals

The Keeper has spawned. On Saturday "the babies" arrived and the Hubbs' parents were all a-buzz. We received a few phone calls from them throughout the day updating us on the labor, the birth, their names, and the particulars of their weight. It's cute that they think we care.

In-Laws picked up EARLY on Saturday morning from NC and drove to PA so they could be there for the birth of their grand daughters. (I believe it's an eight hour car drive each way, but I'm not 100% sure). They spent all day in the hospital and drove all the way home on Sunday morning. They were dead tired, but I'm sure they were gleaming on the inside. They had put off making any plans for Thanksgiving and were basically waiting by the phone for The Call. They were excited.

They tell us that The Keeper and Bro are going to stay in the hospital until Wednesday and then head home. The Babies are healthy, The Keeper had a C-section, and all is well. I wonder if The Keeper even appreciates that they did all of that for them. I'll probably never know although I suspect not because the original plan was for MIL to stay with them for a while to help out. Mysteriously they were heading back to town yesterday. Who knows for sure, right? But I have my suspicions.

*note: The picture shown is not an actual picture of The Babies. I don't know if we'll get to see any of those.

The Babies have been given some very unfortunate names. *sigh* I won't post them here because of the whole innocent child identity thing...but goodness gracious they are bad. I will tell you that they rhyme with the words leave and heffa. I can hear the children chanting and the "can you spell that?" questions that will plague them in my head. They don't have middle names to fall back on and their last names will be hyphenated. It's an uphill battle for these little twins. So unfair.

So what's next? Who knows. I made sure to send a nice blanket for each of them and had their names embroidered on the corner. $80 dudes. At least the shipping was free. *shrugging shoulders* And it gets really cold where they live so they will probably actually have to use them instead of throw them away. Does it matter? Probably not. At least not to her.


Life goes on for us. What choice do we have? And now we wait to see if things will improve or if they will be more of the same. In the words of Kelly Clarkson, "I would never wish bad things, but I don't wish you well." I don't wish evil on anyone unless they mess with my kid, but I find it extremely difficult to really be excited about my little niece-in-laws' arrival. I haven't really been allowed to share in anything leading up to now, and I don't think I'm allowed to really be excited. I do wish those babies well though. Those innocent, poorly named babies never did anything to anyone and I hope we get to have a relationship with them.