In Sickness and in Health

Wednesday March 12, 2008

Instead of being woken up by my alarm, I was woken up by the cries of Jase. I looked at the clock, 4:30 am, 30 minutes before my alarm was supposed to go off. I walked to Jase's room and calmed him down before making our way to the kitchen to make a bottle. After making it, we went back to his nursery and rocked in his rocking chair.

"You couldn't have waited 30 more minutes little man?" I whispered to him rubbing his arm with my thumb. "You must've excited to see daddy again huh? Me too bubba, I miss him too." After he finished his bottle I looked at him and smiled. "How about we make a deal," I paused. "How about momma gets us both ready early and we can wait for daddy early?" Jase stretched real big, and opened his eyes. "I'll take that as a yes."

After pulling into the docks I instantly saw another woman, she must have been waitin' on her husband too. I made my way over to her with Jase in my arms. I approched her slowly.

"Hi, you waitin' for someone to come out?" She looked over a little startled, I must admit that was a little dumb for someone to say to you. "Yeah, but knowing my husband he'll come later on in the day than what he told me." She chuckled. "I'm Felicia." She smiled at me and Jase. "I'm Lindy and this is Jase."

"Nice to meet you both, it's kinda chilly out here. You wanna go inside to wait?" I agreed. We went on to talk about her husband Mike and their daughter Sydney.

"So you're kinda new to this type of thing aren't you?" Felicia said crossing her leg over the other. "Yep this'll be the second time I picked him up, he's coming up on his third time next month." I replied. Felicia gave me all kinds of advice on how to cope. I'm glad I went up to her, talking to someone who could relate to what I was going through felt amazing. Her eyes lit up through the hall. "Excuse me one second sugar." She said jogging over to her husband, they hugged and made their way to me again.

"Mike, this is Lindy Holloway and her little boy Jase." I stood up at this point, Mike's eyes lit up sort of the same way Shane's did 3 weeks ago. "You're Hollywood's wife? Jeez louise, I thought he was lyin' through his teeth." I laughed at his comment, looks like Caleb made more friends. I was talking about my husband to both Mike and Felicia when I heard more people say hello to "Hollywood". I saw him walking before he saw me.

I didn't even excuse myself from Mike and Felicia. I just ran with tears in my eyes, I wrapped my avaliable arm around him before he could lift his head to see us. Once he processed it through his mind he lifted my chin with his hand and kissed me. I heard 20 feet away Felicia hitting Mike from giggling. Once we broke our kiss, Caleb tucked a strand of my hair behind my ear. He looked down at our son and gave me that look that he wanted to hold him.

"There's my handsome boy!" He said rubbing Jase's cheek with the outside of his finger. We made our way back to the seats Felicia and I sat at to talk to one another. "He looks like his momma Hollywood." Mike spoke up looking over Caleb's shoulder.

Caleb looked at him and looked back at me. "Yeah he's mighty pretty just like his momma." My face burned beet red. "You liar, you obviously haven't seen your own baby pictures. He is your twin." He chuckled at me, I leaned my head on his shoulder, gazing upon the love of my life staring at our child. Felicia said that we should all get together sometime, maybe have a brunch. We agreed to their offer.

All three of us made it back to the truck. He hopped into the driver's seat and leaned over and kissed me again. "I love you." He breathed out in his raspy voice, sounding like he had just woken up. "I love you too." I whispered. "Now lets go home." He implied, grabbing my hand.