been thinking about what I was doing 33 years ago today…

I realized I had begun my labour and called George who came home about 9 am and picked me up…  my parents had come over to watch Cyndi and George and I headed to the hospital…  by now my contractions were about 5 minutes apart, but George really needed some cigarettes so we stopped to pick them up… Crystal was born right around noon…

my Grandma, Mom, Crystal and I celebrating Crystal’s first birthday…

we had been up late the night before making a cake for Cyndi’s birthday which was just a few days away… friends had come to help with the project and we had produced a number 2 made out of cupcakes…  it looked great and George took it down to the freezer so that it would be fresh for the birthday party…

we heard a crash and I thought George was being funny, but, in fact, he had dropped the cake into the freezer… yikes… I was very tired from the whole process and ready to have a baby at any time and couldn’t believe the cake had broken, but it had… didn’t seem funny at the time but it has been one of our favourite stories about birthdays…

so, being as Crystal was born the next day, we ordered a cake that was shaped like a two and everyone was happy…

one of Cyndi’s presents that year was a little sister who came home on her birthday…

winner of a beautiful baby contest at two…

not sure Cyndi has ever forgiven us for that…