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...was the day before my first child was due. (Of course I didn't know he was going to wait around 10 days before being forced out of his cozy little hot tub.)
Just my honey and I, waiting (mostly) patiently, spent the evening before my due date putting together a baby swing and watching the World Series Game which was being played in San Francisco that night. It was a moment I'll never forget when the stadium began to quake and Al Michaels announced what was happening as he was experiencing it.
I'm sure you remember what you were doing that evening, and the days after while most of America watched the disaster from a distance. How the time has flown -- it truly seems like yesterday.
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My sister was born on October 17. Apparently my siblings have a knack for being born on days of natural/man-made disaster. I had an aunt who was living in CA at the time.
ReplyDeleteI was a year out of high school . . . they have streets like that in Seattle (the viaduct) and I had to walk beneath it a lot for school and work . . . I was worried it would fall and smoosh me if there were an earthquake or faulty mechanics. I still freak out like a nutty woman when I drive on roads in the air (that's all there seems to be here on O'ahu) and under them as well . . . it is all from seeing that long ago.
ReplyDeleteWow. That's a trip down memory lane. I was in college (in southern California) worrying about my family at home (Los Altos) - especially since there were some wild rumors going around about the severity of the earthquake. Fortunately our family home suffered only a massive wave of water out of the swimming pool and a large statue of our Lady that fell off of her perch - and landed safely in a basket of clean laundry that was sitting on the living room couch.
ReplyDeleteI don't remember where I was, but considering the date, it had to be on the sofa nursing my month-old first child. In that fog, you know, but I definitely remember those pictures.
ReplyDeleteHmmm...I was 3 months away from meeting TheDad for the very first time; 15 months away from marrying him; 27 months away from the birth of Big Brother.
ReplyDeleteWow, 10 days late! How did you stand it?
Happy birthday to College Boy!
(Yesterday some kindergartner asked me if I know Little Brother (he made the "last name" connection, not too hard considering my last name) and THEN wanted to know if I am his GRANDMOTHER! Eeeeek!
Emily -- that's quite a knack your family has. Hopefully your siblings don't follow that same pattern with their babies!
ReplyDeleteSarah -- I'm no good with any kind of bridges. I guess I wouldn't adjust to Hawaii very well.
Love2Learn Mom -- I'm so glad no one put the laundry away that day!
Sara -- I wish we'd been neighbors. What fun we would have had with our babies!
Barb -- I know people think that all the time with Peach, especially with my gray hair. One of college boy's dorm mates told him his grandma was waiting for him one day. I wasn't too happy!
Was it really 20 years ago today? It seems to me like time has flown by so quick. Yes, I am going to be honest, I experienced it. I live in the bay area. That day I was at my Mother house. Only sixteen at the time. My story is a bit ackward but I think I should write in my blog for today's post.
ReplyDeleteI DO remember that day very well. Has it really been 20 years? I was only 11 at the time. We were still living in CA, and even though we lived about 80 miles away from SF, we were close enough to feel the quake. My mom and I were in the kitchen, making dinner, and my younger siblings were playing in the back yard. I remember feeling a really weird rolling feeling, and then looking out the window to see the water in the fountain/little pond, splashing from side to side as tall as the walls of the house. Mom grabbed the baby at the time and we went outside. I also remember watching the aftermath of what had just happened on the news... To this day I am still scared of being "stuck" under a freeway overpass waiting for a light to change, driving over bridges and overpasses, ever since seeing the devastation on the news...
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