When someone has a baby...you be there for the person. You help them overnight, take them meals and ice cream in the hospital, send flowers, bring presents for baby, run to the house to feed the cat and grab things mom discovered she needed, bring them home from the hospital and run them around because mom can't drive yet, hold the cute little monkey for a while. Its sort of what friends do - there is nothing to gain, there is nothing motivating you. You just do it because its the right thing to do and you be glad in it.
Now that we know what to do, there are a lot of things you don't do: be selfish, be rude, be stand-offish, divert attention to yourself, start fights, cause drama, refuse to be supportive, refuse to come visit, play games, play guilt trips, create more work for mom, break a water main in the subdivision so there is no running water (that was random, but nonetheless SO happened).
There have been a couple times this week when it took all I had to hold my tongue because sometimes people need to be slapped.
That is all.
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