For the 29th Monthly Wine Writing Challenge (#MWWC29) on the theme WineStory, I submit the WineStory of our just born baby.
My wife and I had different plans for Election Day. Those plans involved drinking Champagne. Instead, our baby was coming. Even the local paper announced, “Today’s The Day”:
I dropped my wife off at the hospital at 10am to settle in. However, on Monday I had made a last minute sale of Pinot Noir. It had to be delivered today. So, I ran to our warehouse, picked up twenty cases, blasted to town, dropped them off, then blasted back to the hospital. My coworkers thought I was mad. But I made it by noon, just before her water broke and contractions ramped up. After seven hours of strain, stress, and cherry popsicles, Alexandria came into the world.
Plotting our sleep deprivation…
A girl! We did not know the gender beforehand. Now, Champagne was the last thing…
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Congrats!! 🙂