{"id":5120,"date":"2011-09-16T14:14:41","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T18:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/?p=5120"},"modified":"2011-09-16T16:58:25","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T20:58:25","slug":"the-road-to-delirium-in-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/?p=5120","title":{"rendered":"The road to delirium – in pictures."},"content":{"rendered":"

I think my brother is pretty rad. \u00a0I always have. \u00a0We are VERY close in age (I’m older, he’s bigger) and so we’ve kind of always had each other to lean on through the goods, the bads and everything in between. \u00a0I’m pretty sure we’ve not kept one secret from each other, ever.<\/p>\n

Through the years Sean had some girlfriends. \u00a0Most did not pass the test. \u00a0The sister test. \u00a0I was not impressed. \u00a0When sister isn’t happy, brother knows it. \u00a0Brother often does not care, but he knows.<\/p>\n

And then he married Vinnie. \u00a0It was like I went sister-in-law shopping and chose her myself. \u00a0She’s the yin to his yang. \u00a0The carrot to his peas. \u00a0The peanut butter to his jelly.<\/p>\n

And then they made a baby. \u00a0A perfectly sweet and GORGEOUS little lady that we are all already completely smitten with.<\/p>\n

But that baby had to get here. \u00a0And early on I hinted that I would like to be there. \u00a0I reminded them a lot that I should be called first so I could drop everything \u00a0and get there. \u00a0I also hinted that if said labour were to take place on a weekend, that would be so much easier for me as I wouldn’t have to come up with a sitter on short notice.<\/p>\n

Araya complied. \u00a0She broke mommy’s water on a Friday afternoon. \u00a0Perfect. \u00a0Dan came home and took over kid duty and I was off to the hospital with Vinnie’s mama to wait, rather impatiently, for Araya to make her debut.<\/p>\n

Little did we know at the time, but there was no rush. \u00a0Araya wanted some attention, but was SO NOT READY to come out. \u00a0But there was no way either me or mama Singh wanted to go home. \u00a0So we stayed. \u00a0And we even mostly stayed out of the way.<\/p>\n

Over the next 19 hours or so, we walked a lot, talked alot and laughed a lot. \u00a0And surprsingly, while Vinnie took teeny cat naps, Sean and I got out for fresh air, coffee and quick walks. \u00a0On our first walk, I snapped a self-portrait of the two of us and decided we should snap one on each walk. \u00a0We did not know at the time that these quick pics would document our long path from excited energy to exhausted delirium.<\/p>\n

Would you like to come with?<\/p>\n

8:30 pm<\/p>\n

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11:30 pm<\/p>\n

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12;40 pm (First signs of crazy).<\/p>\n

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2:55 am (Laughing at nothing. \u00a0Yup, crazy).<\/p>\n

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3:36 am (You are getting very sleepy).<\/p>\n

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5:19 am (Mama Singh, also feeling crazy, decided to join us).<\/p>\n

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7:24 am (Notice it is light outside again. \u00a0These was taken a few moments before Sean, Mama Singh and I were in hysterics about stinky shoes and karata suits and also only about 6 minutes before we all finally and literally passed out).<\/p>\n

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And the last in the series was taken after Araya decided to join us. \u00a0Showers were taken, clothes were changed, naps were had (by me – Sean, the new daddy, was still fairly zombie-ish) and meals were eaten. \u00a0Oh, and LOTS of coffee was consumed. \u00a0I was feeling fresh as a daisy. \u00a0Look at me, the very proud new auntie.<\/p>\n

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And there you have it. \u00a0I want to sincerely thank Sean, Vinnie and Araya for allowing me to be a part of one of the longest, most fun, most exciting nights of my young life. \u00a0I’m honoured that I could be there with you. \u00a0Just another chapter to add to our long story.<\/p>\n

And for the record, Sean, it WAS your feet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I think my brother is pretty rad. \u00a0I always have. \u00a0We are VERY close in age (I’m older, he’s bigger) and so we’ve kind of always had each other to lean on through the goods, the bads and everything in between. \u00a0I’m pretty sure we’ve not kept one secret from each other, ever. Through the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[5,14,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5120"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5120"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5131,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5120\/revisions\/5131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}