I was dreaming of giant Coronas and limes when something jolted me from my slumber. I looked up and there was a vision of Ems standing in our room with what appeared to be an ipad in her hands. Her mouth was moving but there was no sound. Mike was in bed beside me. He appeared to be talking to her, but it was all just a mime to me. I figured it was some kind of weird dream, so I plonked back down and tried to conjure up the soothing image of that giant Corona. I felt Mike get out of bed.

“What’s happening?” I asked. His lips moved but I couldn’t hear what he was saying. It was like I had gone comfortably deaf in my sleep.

“I can’t hear you?” I said.

Again, his lips moved, but no sound came out. “Speak louder, I can’t hear you.” I yelled.

“Well take your bloody ear plugs out then.”

Oh yeah, I had forgotten about them. Mike has a cold and was snoring in his sleep, so I had shoved them in before I went to bed. I removed them from my ears and suddenly all was clear.

“Ems is just on her way to the hospital. Her waters broke an hour ago and contractions are every 3 minutes.” he said. I assumed this meant the baby was coming. I looked at the clock. It was 3.27am.

I eventually got back to my dream of the giant Corona, my own waistline expanding like a pregnant woman as I drank it. At 6.30am Mike’s alarm went off. Except it wasn’t his alarm. It was his phone. Nick was calling to say that Ems had given birth to a little girl. I’m a Nana again!

Anyway, that was the big excitement for the day. In other news, we bought a car and are heading off on a road trip on Monday.