The 2nd half of September 2002 had began. Now Hoss and Betsy Cartwright knew for sure that their twins would be born soon.
Due to the upcoming delivery the twins Lisa and Benji (who had Adam and Sally as parents had moved to a new room. The extremely pregnant Betsy stood in de nursery which her eldest nephew Mitch had painted. Her sister-in-law Sally was with her.
“Just let the babies come now”, the mother-to-be sighed.
“Mine stayed inside me till the 39th week. But they came quite fast because the contractions began at 6 o’clock in the morning. Lisa came into the world at 11.15 and her brother at 11.20”, said Sally.
Betsy said, “Then I hope that my delivery also goes so fast.”
That night Betsy woke up at 4 o’clock with heavy bellyache. She knew right away that the delivery had started. She looked next to her and saw that Hoss was away.
“Great! The twins are coming and their father is of course sitting in the kitchen again”, she said to herself.
With much difficulty Betsy got up and she went downstairs.
“So you are here once again?”, asked Betsy.
“I was hungry. But I didn’t want to wake you up”, answered Hoss.
Betsy said, “It’s time. Our twins are coming.”
She got a contraction right away. Hoss took her into his arms for support.
“You go back to bed and I phone the doctor”, Hoss said calm.
So said, so done.
Sally was busy making breakfast together with the Chinese cook Hop Sing.
“Your little ones not yet awake?”, asked Hop Sing.
“No, they sleep through everything. I will go with Adam wake them up and take care of our children”, answered Sally.
Sally washed her hands and went then with Adam to their children. Mitch already had taken the bathroom because he had to go to school anyway.
Sally dropped in by Hoss and Betsy for a second.
“How is it?”, asked Sally.
“The contractions are coming faster. I am afraid that they are already coming now”, Betsy answered gasping.
Then the mother-to-be noticed that the waters had been broken.
“My waters have been broken. Now the girls are coming”, said Betsy.
“Must you push already?”, asked Hoss.
His wife nodded and got then a heavy push contraction. She gave in to it with support of Hoss and Sally.
When Betsy felt the 1st coming Doc Martin came into the bedroom.
“Doc, you come just in time”, said Hoss.
Doc examined Betsy and said, “A good push contraction and then the 1st is born.”
Betsy took a deep breath and went to push heavily. With a loud scream she gave life to the 1st half of their twins.
“A little daughter. Congratulations both”, Doc said while he put the baby near the mother.
Hoss kissed his wife of happiness.
“She is called Inger”, Betsy said with tears in her eyes.
Five minutes later Inger got company of her sister Petra.
“They are both healthy”, said Doc.
After the delivery Betsy laid in a clean bed with the newborn babies with her.
“They are so sweet”, Hoss said smiling.
“Just go and tell the others”, Betsy said tired but happy.
Hoss rushed downstairs and told excited about the birth of the new twins.
When Ben held his new grandchildren the rancher knew that all his grandchildren were his real wealth despite owning the Ponderosa. Just like 25/12/1992, 6/11/2001 was also 25/09/2002 had become a very memorable date for the Cartwrights.