Holy Cow!

WOW! Thank you so much to everyone who has visited my blog in the last day or so! I officially have twice as many page views as on my best day. I am very overwhelmed by all of our friends and family who have gotten in touch with us since last night. We are so very humbled by this amazing blessing! We have really been working toward getting on a budget and straightening out our finances, and this will be a huge help! We are so excited and I have lots more details to share.
First of all, if you thought the moments before he read the winner were agonizing for you, they were so much worse for us! We had already rehearsed the announcement by having someone go through and read each family's name as if they had won. That was nerve wracking by itself. Then Tom Bergeron went through the entire script, ALL but the winner's name. I think his comment was, "And the winner of the $100,000 is...yo mama!" Of course all the kids died laughing. They thought that was awesome.
As they were just about to start the real deal, one of the adorable kids next to us wet her pants. Everything screeched to a halt, and I felt so bad for her and her mom. Apparently she had asked to go to the bathroom and her mom told her to wait. Sounds like something that SO would have happened to me. Poor lady! Poor kid! It was just awful.
Then as we waited on them to get back with a dry pair of tights, the baby on our other side of us threw up everywhere. Guess he was tired of being held around the middle facing the camera. Poor little guy!
By this point I was just about to throw up myself. I looked at Tom Bergeron and said, "Has anyone ever actually had a heart attack during this show?" And he replied, "Yeah, Bob Saget! That's how I got the gig." I thought that was pretty quick! He really is a very funny guy.
So we stood there for what felt like four forevers. When the camera was showing him read the card, I finally just had to stand there with my eyes closed. I couldn't think, couldn't breathe, and was really trying not to lock my knees. As I said, in my mind I'd heard him say "Santa Calls" a million times. So when he really did say it, I couldn't quite wrap my mind around what had just happened. Did he say that? Really? Or did I just want to hear it so bad I thought he said it? I couldn't be sure. What resulted was one of the most shocking, joyful moments of my life. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry! I think I'll go watch it again, just to make sure I didn't make the whole thing up. ;)