My sweet mama just sent me the sweetest funniest email about my birth! For posterity. I am guessing this pic is from my first birthday.-----Original Message-----
Subject: OOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCHHHHHHHHHHHH.............
Vacuum the house, dust the furniture, mop the floor.....energy to burn.....feeling just great....Granny Farris has been picked up from the airport, flew in from Illinois.....supper is done....sitting on the sofa looking through old photo albums....time to go to bed.....big PAPA has gone to work the graveyard shift at the shipyard.........lie down to relax and oh something doesn't feel right in my back..........hummmmmmmmmmmm.....go and tell Granny.....she makes the big phone call to Uncle Homer's house..........he & auntie baby doll arrive.....Ho Ho arrives curb side on Dover Road.......vw car door flung open.......all doors on house he props open too.....ZOOM, ZOOM, ZOOM.......off we go to the hospital in Uncle HO HO's VW............it is about 2 AM....he runs through all of the RED stoplights........car flashers flashing yellow, car horn beeping to warn other motorist we are coming through (however there are few cars on the road at this hour of the morning.........OUCH....I can see the head..........YIKES............MY BACK IS CRACKING IN TWO............OWWWWWWHHHHHH..........HELP ME.............."stop telling me to count the holes in the ceiling tile"................God Damn it, QUIT telling me just to relax my hands...........
OH THIS HURTS............OW THIS REALLY HURTS...............................YIKES.............
SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP ME.......................I NEED TO WALK.........OW............BREATHE
DEEP...........RELAX.............YEAH RIGHT!
help ME PLEASE...............OH GOD I AM GOING TO KILL SOMEBODY................ah la la land finally
they have given me something to relax me ........... I doze in and out ........... soon I hear "IT'S A BABY GIRL" and I am so happy and I know my life is forever changed for the better............
In about 5 minutes from now you were born some 34 years ago....you looked just like a little
indian baby, dark curly hair, dark pink skin, so cute, sooooo big all 11 lb 4 oz of you
I was so lucky ............and the rest is history as you know.......................Love your mother
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