As the birth of my first grandchild approaches I keep hearing the voice of McDonald Carey saying "Like sands through the hour glass, so are the Days of Our Lives". You might think it's weird that I'm hearing a soap opera star from long ago run through my mind and maybe it is weird. I grew up with Soap Operas on TV during the daytime hours. Now, sometimes I watched them and sometimes they were just background noise as Mama Crouch, Mama and I would sew or prepare garden vegetables to be put up for the winter. I do remember clearly that my Pa Crouch had a Soap Opera he liked to watch during lunch everyday.... just can't remember for sure which one it was... something like The Guiding Light or The Edge of Night. I also remember Mama telling me that a character named Tom (not the Tom on Days of Our Lives) was born on the same day I was born.... of course, he was born on a Soap. I also remember that he aged faster than I did!!
I clearly remember when I was pregnant with Enola 24 years ago I was an avid watcher of The Young and the Restless. The character Nina (a poor girl) was pregnant by Phillip Chancellor (a rich boy). I watched the show every single day to see how Nina's pregnancy was progressing. Let me state at this point that I was petrified of Labor and Delivery!! Of course, Nina breezed through and delivered a beautiful little boy they named Chance. I had dreams of labor and delivery and one night in my dreams I delivered a beautiful litter of Dachshund Puppies. I woke up feeling like I would do fine since that litter of puppies was so easy to deliver! My actual labor and delivery with Enola was no where near that easy, but she has been more than worth any fear, pain, or discomfort I went through while having her!
Enola is no long a lover of the regular daytime soaps like Days of Our Lives.... even though she kept up with Bo and Hope for many years as well as the characters on General Hospital when she was younger. Now she is a lover of the Kardashians and has kept up with Kortney Kardashians pregnancy and recent delivery. Times are different with so many ways to communicate and find information online. Plus she's an educated young woman.... don't know if that really makes a difference or not.....
Now that I know she will be induced Tuesday if she doesn't go into labor between now and then all I can think about is our lives will never be the same again!! Never again will it be just Jordan, Enola, and me living in this house with all of our dogs. Enola has left before to go off to college and she was with her Dad in Huntsville while working on the Arsenal for over a year. However, these past weeks that we've been together under one roof preparing for Ava's arrival have been a wonderful time for me. We have laughed so much I'm surprised she didn't deliver Ava on the spot. She has helped me to pack for my move into my new "old house" in Pulaski and she's started making this house her home. I know she is anxious for Chris to finish his time in the Military and be here with her and Ava so they can really start their lives together.
This is a very happy and exciting time in our lives, yet it is a little bittersweet for me because my baby girl is about to become a Moma and have her own baby girl!! I've been told by others that my love for Ava will be more overpowering than my love for Enola, but I find that hard to believe. I can't imagine loving anyone more than I love Enola!!
