Driving to Phoenix

No grandbaby yet.  Can you believe this?  I'll let you in on a cold-stone fact ~ I hate driving long distances.  And if I hated it before driving from Idaho to Phoenix, AZ, I despise it now.  What a horrible drive on US-93.  There is nothing.  Just nothing.  The scenery stays exactly the same until you hit Las Vegas (and then it doesn't change much except that there are people).  Hundreds and hundreds of miles of desert & brown mountains.  No people.  Sometimes an hour might pass without seeing even another car.  That kind of wide open space freaks me out.  I'm from Michigan and then lived in Florida for 20 years.  I'm used to trees and green and lots of people.  I like trees and green and although I am maybe not so fond of crowds of people,  I still like to feel that I'm living in a populated universe.  Especially when there isn't any phone service and the temperature is rising above 100 degrees and I'm in the middle of nowheresville.

Okay, enough said about how much I loved the scenery and the drive.  Zachary called me on Saturday to say that they thought Jessica had had her bloody show.  She was having increasingly steady contractions.  She wanted me to be there with her in the delivery room.  Amanda and I packed and headed for Phoenix.  By the time we arrived everything had stopped.  It was 107 degrees. 

So we hung out.  Swam a lot.  On Thursday Jessica had a Dr.'s appointment.  She was dilated 2 to 3 centimeters and 75% effaced.  The doctor said he would see her next week if she made it that far and that she probably would.  Brad has to go back to work today and Ryan was at home with him . . . also the dogs, the garden, the new seed & sod we just put in.  So I left on Friday morning.  It took 17 hours to get here (one detour when I missed my exit in Las Vegas and ended up on the Strip ...eeks, don't drive on the strip on a Friday afternoon in June).  By the time I got home I literally couldn't see properly and was listing and losing my balance like a drunk.  It was 3 a.m.

Zachary called last-night and Jessica is in labor.  Her water broke without her knowing it (huh?) and so she is in the hospital and on antibiotics.  Her labor is not progressing so they started giving her pitocin this morning.  And here I am in Idaho. 

Expletive.