A Kid for Every County

Bill often said that he wanted to have thirty two children, one for every county in Ireland, and that he would name each of them after a county. Then he got on a kick where he decided to name his first son “Shamrock”, but that never happened. Thank goodness that the twins ended up with other, normal, names. Oh, the twins. Shortly after Margaret first learned she was pregnant, she and my wife Lauren were driving down to Mystic Island. Lauren asked her if she was having twins, and Maggie said thank goodness, no; there was only one heartbeat. Lauren responded that perhaps the two hearts were beating in sync. Maggie said no, definitely only one child and that she could never handle two. Then when the baby shower came along (by then she knew they were twins) Lauren made a bassinet cake with two babies in the weaved basket. She had no blue food coloring so she went with a pink theme. To this day I suspect that Maggie reckons she is a voodoo woman!