Meg and Matt's Place

     A few weeks back my boyfriend and I tossed around the idea of opening our own bar. He has bar-tending experience, I have bar-tending experience (thanks to him helping me get the job), and we have both always wanted to own our own restaurant. I'm not sure if this dream will ever become a reality, but I would love to have it come true. I loved working in the bar/service industry and have had many customers compliment me on my service with a smile.

     Back story aside, welcome to the world of Meg and Matt's! Family atmosphere by day, small town hang out by night, we are here to cater to the needs of any customer. Our lunch and dinner specials are different each day, but we try to keep the specials consistent weekly. Monday come and enjoy our burger special where all burgers are $1.50 off! Fridays starting in January we have a Fish Fry fundraiser for a local charity. Saturday's dinner special is a free kids meal with a paying adult meal. Sunday's during football season we have game day specials that vary weekly. Call ahead to see what we have going on! We also have Bike Nights all summer long on Monday's. Bike Night specials include raffles for great prizes like Meg and Matt's gift cards, Twins jerseys and a cash prize of $150 at the end of the summer. We also provide a complimentary pop of your choice for all bikers on Bike night.

     Safety is incredibly important to us here at Meg and Matt's! We provide a complimentary can of pop to all sober cabs. If your group plans on staying a while, we appreciate the business and will keep your sober cab from going thirsty on the house.

     Every weekend we have different kinds of entertainment including bands, DJ's and karaoke nights. This coming Friday is Ladies night. $.50 off all drinks for ladies over 21 starting at 8pm. The local band Starstruck will be playing from 8pm-1am. Saturday, we have karaoke with our very own, Chad. Free to all our customers, karaoke is always a great time!

     At Meg and Matt's our philosophy is to have the best customer service around. We try to do that for our customers by having a wide variety of food, pop and alcoholic choices. With over 12 different kinds of canned pop on stock at all times as well as the best alcohol variety in the county, we are here to give you exactly what you are looking for! Our service is also a top priority here! Our customers are the focus of our business and poor service won't be found here. We keep Meg and Matt's well staffed to ensure low wait times and prompt service with a smile.

     We have off-sale available with the full selection we have on our shelves. Please keep in mind we have a duty to follow all state laws regarding all services provided, this includes legal age to buy alcohol and days and times allowed to sell off sale. We thank you for understanding.

     We also cater for events ranging from 20-250 people. Our back room is also available for rent at a low fee! Ask any staff member for details.

     We look forward to seeing you soon!

The Journey

     The last two weeks have been interesting to say the least. It's been this massive uphill journey with a happy ending and more happiness to come. I have learned more than I thought possible, and cried more than I ever have in a short period of time.

     On October 1st, I went into preterm labor. I was 31 weeks 2 days. My hospital is only Neonatal Care rated to care for babies born after 32 weeks. Some babies born before can be cared for there, some born after need more help than they can offer, but that is the guideline. Because of this, I had to get transferred to Abbott in Minneapolis while on a wonderful drug called Magnesium Sulfate. 

     Magnesium sulfate (or Mag) is some of the worst hell I have ever been through in so many ways. It's like being drunk and hung over at the same time. Head ache, nausea, dizziness, blurred vision, I would even have what I called "episodes." An episode was when I could no longer control myself on over the drug and it would do what it wanted to me. I remember one episode, my boyfriend Matt was watching the Vikings/Packers game and I just started shaking. I had a chill. I couldn't open my eyes because any light hurt my head ache. My body hurt. My ability to control what I said was gone. I apparently was talking to him but I was slurring my words so he didn't know what I was saying. This lasted for 5 hours.

  Finally, on Saturday the 4th, I was discharged on bed rest. I was so excited to get my older boys back on Sunday morning I didn't care what restrictions I was on. I just was happy to be home. Sunday morning when I got up to get ready to get my kids, I realized I was bleeding and contracting again. My labor was back on. 

 Sunday morning I got admitted into my hospital. I was put back on Mag. I sat there until Wednesday and continually was given different answers. "You're going home tomorrow." "Never mind." "You might just go into labor with these drugs anyway." "Never mind." No restrictions except pretty strict bed rest and those hospital beds suck.

All night Tuesday and part of the day Wednesday I was somewhat lying to the nurses. I was contracting, and I was having them give me Tylenol for the pain from them. I told them it was for a headache. I was set on busting out of that place to see my kids. The nurses could see my contractions on the monitor but they couldn't see me fighting them in my room by myself. I didn't care if I had to come back, I just wanted out.

 The whole thing was so frustrating! I was missing my kids and feeling like a failure, but a half hour before I was finally going to be discharged on Wednesday the 8th, my water broke. Suddenly, the bitch who had been cooped up eating hospital food and not allowed to leave the bed aside from going to the bathroom was incredibly happy! I called Matt and told him to get his ass to Waconia, he was going to be a daddy. Then I called my nurse. Order of importance here. 

 At 7:42 pm, three hours after my water broke, my little angel was born a healthy 5 pounds 2 ounces, and 18 inches long. They were expecting a closer to 3 and a half pound 16.5-17 incher. He was always able to breathe on his own but needed a little help keeping pressure in his lungs for the first 12 hours. Since then he has been breathing entirely on his own. 

 When I saw him yesterday, he was almost back up to birth weight, coming off of the iv fluids that give him some of his nutrition, got taken off the incubator because he is warm enough on his own to have clothes and blankets on, AND he nursed for the first time! These are all incredible steps towards coming home. I can't wait! 

 This whole process has been an emotional journey. I've gone to crazy, psycho, pregnant bitch to happy "I love my baby, I'm so blessed" mom, to "I'm a failure, I couldn't even stay pregnant, now I can't breastfeed. I am a failure to my son." to "I can do this! If my son can grow and be strong after being born so early, I can stay strong for him and his brothers. I can do this. Before I know it, he will be home." This journey has not been an easy one, and it will not get any easier. This process will have more destinations, some that I wouldn't mind staying at, some that I will wish I never stopped at in the first place. Until then, I will have the most beautiful little family even if we are separated. I am so incredibly blessed!

Jack Mathew Schlueter

Born October 8th

7:42 pm

5 pounds 2 ounces

18 inches long

7 weeks 5 days premature