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You see these two? The short one is my daughter. They met because her dog was hurting and he worked at the vet clinic. She had been in town less than a week after moving to the NW to go to college by us driving from Texas. By the time I left 6 weeks later, a few days after this photo, they were fairly fond of each other. And as time went by, they decided to marry, have a child, and then it was decided they would have another child. 

My daughter takes after me. She's never without an adventure to tell you about. I just can't get her to be still and tell you about them. 

I have a hard and fast rule that my kids' stories are theirs to tell. I don't tell their stories to the extended family, I don't tell their stories to mutual friends. 

But. Since you are not my extended family and you are not mutual friends with my daughter and me (since she doesn't steem), I'm going to tell you a secret.

My Granddaughter was born  
to be a traveling girl! 

How do I know?  
Because she broke loose   
from her cocoon   
in the car 
without the assistance of  
the medical community.

At random times my daughter had a few contractions here and a few contractions there over the weekend and on Monday. Each afternoon, they stopped. Monday she also suddenly became very tired and so they just lounged around the house. 

At 1 am Tueaday morning, she was awake with her first daughter for about 30 minutes and there was nothing going on.

At 4am give or take a little, she woke up in intense pain. LoL Phone calls were made, bags gathered up, and frantic calls to local family ensued as they careened down the highway past this falls and toward the city. 

Finally my daughter's mother-in-law answered her phone. "Oh! I was just downstairs praying for you." 

They made arrangements to meet up on one of the highway exits and connections were made so Daughter #1 was not in the middle of drama. Her mother in law is a nurse. She insinuated they might should plan to go to a closer hospital. But my daughter was still clinging to the fact that her water hadn't broken as a sign that she couldn't possibly be that far into progress.

They barely made it back onto the highway than my daughter was insisting, "Ok no! My body is pushing! Exit!" So. They exited. And my granddaughter made her way out, pushed her way out, while they were still a good 10 minutes from the closest hospital.

 My daughter caught her. Fortunately she had planned for the fact that her water still hadn't broken when they left the house. So there were towels and puppy-pee pads (remember the vet clinic) and maybe some washrags ;-). 

My daughter and I traded little video clips via Telegram all day Tuesday. My granddaughter is exceptionally serene. My daughter looked great! I kept expecting her to say, "So, yeah. We'll be back in a little bit. We're going to go get those groceries we didn't get yesterday." 

I think this is the way a delivery is really suppose to be. I think if she had gone in on Monday, they would have kept her and there would have been constant prodding and poking and pitocin to hurry things along because man knows there's no time for a quiet slow delivery in a hospital -- usually.

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PS the "freckles" are actually bruising from her deciding to shoot down the chute so quickly.

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