One for the Road

Tomorrow I leave for Iowa with a group of students and faculty to help with flood relief in Cedar Rapids. What fun it will be. I think I am all packed up and ready to go, for the most part.

So tonight we had the second of our birthing classes. It has been helpful. We have learned some pain management techniques. This will surely come in handy for me when I get out of line and receive a swift kick in the pants. Many breathing techniques may come in handy.

It is great to learn how to recognize when it is actually time to go to the hospital, how labor progresses and how to work through the process.

I don't know if I am just too immature or what! I am behaving in class but I keep thinking random things that our instructor says are funny. There is no way for me to relay the comments over a blog so as to convey the humor that I am finding in them. Sometimes I am just thinking of a sarcastic response, or a hilarious joke that has been set up for a punchline that I am absolutely ready to deliver... I hold them to myself. We talked about the need for a focal point and honestly, I have put my focal point to good use when trying to keep my smiles and chuckles to keep from bubbling over into laughter.

I kept thinking that it was just me but I have been watching some classmates and have been noticing that they too are giving looks to each other and even hiding their faces at times. We have two classes left and I keep wondering to myself if we, as a class, will ever share the great humor that we are all apparently finding in pieces of the class.

Well, one thing is for sure... I am overjoyed at the thought that in, what will likely feel like a quick few weeks, I will be a daddy. How could anything else better epitomize
living the dream!