When I found out that I was pregnant at age 40, I considered it to be a miracle. After Lauren was born in 1996, I had two miscarriages, so I kind of figured it wasn't in the cards for me to have any more children. Those first three months of my pregnancy to say I was stressed, would be an understatement. Since I had lost my two other pregnancies before the third month, I was pretty sure it would happen again. Once I made it into my fourth month, I rested a little easier. Dominic decided to come about two weeks early. Today is his ninth birthday and wouldn't you know it, he woke up early this morning at 4:30 a.m.!! Good thing I'm an "early bird!" At first I thought I was dreaming, because I heard talking. Then I was thinking, okay, maybe it was the paper delivery person and they had the radio on. Nope, it was Dominic, already up with all the downstairs lights on. When I went down to check out what he was doing, he had pulled out a bag of Chex Mix and was...
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