It has been nothing but go, go, go at the Freel house for the past few days. Thursday morning my friend Emily called to tell me that my next door neighbor and our mutual friend Beth had gone into labor and was having an emergency c section. Besides that being bad news for anyone, Beth was only thirty weeks pregnant with twins, so lots of concern and angst spread across the base as the news got out. Emily tackled caring for Beth's little boy and then we cruised down to the hospital to check on her.
Amazingly, the babies were a very good size...well over 3 lbs and doing extremely well, considering the circumstances.
Her husband Rich and the twins were life flighted to Anchorage shortly after her c section -- no one here in the Interior has the resources to care for babies that small and early, but that left poor Beth here to recover as well as she could and fly down on Saturday.
Friday Emily and I blitzed her house and took care of laundry and baby care, then Saturday Charlie and I packed up the kids and drove to Fairbanks to pick Beth up so she could pack for her flight to Anchorage later in the day. She can only lift 7-8 lbs after a c section and was having difficulty moving around, so I stayed at the house and helped her get things together, get her some yummy lunch, pump one last time before her flight and all those various getting out of town duties. Her son was VERY happy to see her and didn't want mommy to go away again, but he was okay after some good snacks and playtime with Connor. He was going to sleep at our house last night, because Emily and Ethan had a work social last night...but then Ethan fell on the ice holding their 4 month old Jack on Sat afternoon, and they spent the day at the ER getting the baby checked, so they decided to stay in at Beth's house and watch the children there. It was probably best for Luke to be in a familiar situation with all the disruption he's had lately, though Connor was disappointed at missing out on a sleepover. Rich is coming home tomorrow to take over watching Luke while Beth stays in Anchorage with the twins...thank goodness her mom is coming to look after Beth. She needs to just focus on getting better and looking after her tiny boys.
When you add in Charlie's multiple reports and award write ups he is crunching out for the end of the year, deployment preparations, our own squadron holiday party for which a three layer red velvet cake was required, and the demands of my own house and children AND Christmas prep, I am very tired. We all agreed to stay in today and sack out watching Christmas movies and making sugar cookies for Santa. I don't think any of us are even going to get out of pjs today. I hope the rest of the week is relaxing in comparison.
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