"Honey, I think maybe you should come home early...maybe?"

I sent my Mom & boys off to their cubscout Twilight Camp, ate/fed Ari cereal for dinner (NOTHING else sounded good!) & started realizing fully that my contractions were getting more intense (I had been having contractions all through the night & day but they were very irregular, not too intense & was also nauseous & feeling yucky). I wasn't thrilled thinking that I hadn't had a good night's rest & also, I was all alone! My Mom tried to tell me she didn't want to leave me, but I had insisted. So, at that point I called Tony even though I still wasn't totally sure it was the 'real' thing but he left immediately anyway. Then I called my Mom & she left to come home as well.

Me, breathing through a contraction while finishing up Rhett's first journal entry.

Within 30 minutes of Tony getting home (about 6pm) my contractions were five minutes apart & about 30 seconds long. I called the midwife a bit later & she said to come in when the contractions were 60 seconds long. About 30 min. after that, it was time to go! It seemed to all be happening so fast!