I knew I was asking for it!

It seems to happen every time; I stay up late and end up suffering for it the next day. This time John and I accidentally stayed up until 4 A.M. Tue morning and I got a call for a birth at 7:54 A.M. Tue morning. What are the odds? I actually had been hired to provide after care for this family since the parents wanted to UC (unassisted childbirth, for those that don't recognize the initials) but by the time I was 5 minutes away from the families home the mother hadn't delivered, decided to transfer to the hospital, and wanted me to meet her there. I had never met the family before, except over the phone, so didn't expect to stay for the birth but ended up there for the entire thing and for 4 or so hours of after care. It made for a very long day since they lived more than an hour and a half away from town. I didn't end up getting home until 7:30, the older 3 boys didn't come home from a friends house until after 9 (and they brought the two friends with so didn't go to sleep until after 10:00 P.M.), and I found out that I was out of town when my in-laws came home from Utah and they ended up having to get a taxi to get home since I had the van and John was unable to pick them up. I now have to apologize to them for not meeting them at the airport, though I do put some of the blame on them since they told me they were coming home today not yesterday and never called to confirm the date or time they would be arriving. I do have to say, for never having met the family, I did some good work for them. I just wish they had waited until I got to their house before deciding to transfer because it would then have been unnecessary!