Well it is 4:00am and I have already been up for 20 minutes. I showered and shaved and dressed and now I wait. At this stage in the game Shelly is trying an impossible task. She is attempting to get out of bed, get showered and dressed in under an hour. If she can do it, it is worthy of a gold medal.
I am a pro when it comes to 'getting ready to go'. I have got it down. Let's take church for example(with non-pregnant wife). If church starts at 10am I know in order to get to church on time we need to set the alarm for 8:40. At 8:40 when the alarm goes off I immediately hop out of bed and shelly rolls over. I go to the bathroom, weigh myself and hop in the shower. Shelly rubs her head and rolls over. I spend about 10 minutes in the shower. (Sorry, I know I probably leave the shower a bit dirtier then some of you. But 10 minutes is enough). After my first 5 minutes in the shower I call to shelly and ask if she is up. If I am lucky she rolls out of bed and makes her way to the bathroom by the time I am drying off. If not, after drying, I go tap her a few times. If I can get her in the shower by 8:55 I know she will be walking out of the house by 9:55 and we can be at church by 10. Her prep time to go anywhere(non-baby) is 1 hour from the time she steps foot into the shower. BTW, while she is in the shower I get dressed, wake the kids, get them dressed run downstairs feed them breakfast, make shelly toast and put it on a plate in the truck and comb hair, tie shoes, put coats on the kids, grab the bibles and get the in the truck and wait for her to come down the stairs.
However, since Shelly has been with child my time estimates have grown exponentially with every month into the pregnancy. It can easily mean that to get to church on time we now have to wake up when it is still dark outside. Now instead of having just enough time to get all the kids prepped I do all the things I did before and then we sit in the living room and watch a few tv shows before hopping in the truck.
So this morning my wife is trying to pull off a miracle. We need to be pulling out of our driveway at 4:45am and she is only hopping into the shower at 4am. 45 minutes? I haven't seen such a short prep time in years? will she make it? I hope. I want to see our baby today.
I will keep you posted eventually.
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