March Whackieness

It is March. We have been home now for about 5 days since coming back from a vacation in Seattle.
We always have a great time when we are on vacation. This time we spent the whole time in the Seattle area. The reason for going was to be with Kerry when she gave birth to our beautiful granddaughter. And then to stick around and help her and Chris while they got settled into family life.
We arrived a few days before Chloe was borne so we had some time out with Kerry and Chris. Kerry has already started her maternity leave but Chris had a couple more days to work before taking a week off. We were still grandparents to be at that point, but fell right into the roll of helping with projects around their house.
The Monday Kerry went into the doctor to have a checkup, they decided to admit her and the game was on. A few hours later, Chris was by her side at the hospital. Let me rewind here. The night before, Chris had opened a bottle of Zivinia poured shots for everyone, and would not stop until half the bottle was gone. He woke up in the early hours of the morning and popped some Ibuprofen. Then after only a couple more hours of sleep at 5:00 am he was off to work. Now, back to the hospital. It is 9:00 at night and Tess and I are just leaving after delivering their bags and the child seat. Kerry is in mild labor at this point. Chris is still awake after being hung over in the morning. Contractions and delivery sets in around 10:30 and finally at 1:25am Chloe is welcomed into the world.
Over the next couple days, Chloe and now mom are kept in the hospital as follow up tests are done. Tess and I hang shelves, replace the faucet and light in their bathroom, put up some pictures and clean the house. Then everyone comes home and there is much rejoicing.
Chris's parents came around for a couple days, it was really nice to see them again. Not much has changed since we met in Hawaii. My parents also came up to see their first Great Grandchild.
Tess and I tried not to hang around all the time so we did some shopping, got massages, more shopping, ate out and did some site seeing.
When it was time to leave, we gathered out stuff, shipped some boxes and left behind the most beautiful granddaughter in the world. It was really hard to leave. Because we could not all fit into Kerry's car we hired a limo to take us to the airport, I think that made it a bit easier.
However, even though the vacation was so wonderful, there is nothing like getting back home.