I Don't Get It Nor Do I Ever Want To

"3" What does it mean? To a sports oriented family my brain pulls out a couple quick answers: 3 strikes and your out, a 3-ball to start each pickup basketball game, or a par 3. To a musical family like my wifes "3" conjures up a completely different set of thoughts but to me right now "3" refers to one thing and one thing only. Number 3, the bun in the oven, numero tecero, our 3rd child.

Let me tell you all a secret, shhh come closer. "My kids are the bestest mostest cutest kids in the whole wide universe". You may disagree but we can agree to disagree. I love my kids, they make me happy but there is one thing I never want to experience. Right now you might all be thinking that I am going to say child birth. Although I hear it is no fun you are wrong. I think I could do the child birth thing all things considered. No, I am talking about something that is also caused by one of my favorite things in the world, sex, but it's not child birth. I am talking about pregnancy.

I think I could deal with the pain of delivery and even deal with the extreme discomfort by the almost unavoidable tear. What I don't get nor do I ever want to is the weird uncontrollable hormonal swings that the pregnant and just pregnant woman have to some how try to control. I could deal with the blood. I could deal with the pain and discomfort. I think I could even deal with feeling absolutely out of commission from morning sickness. I can hold my own when I'm tired so I think I could manage that obstical but the hormonal swings and emotional side of the whole ordeal would K.O. me for the "3" count.

Before all the women out there start telling me that I just don't get how hard it is to be morning sick or how painful labor is or how incredible miserable it is to bleed for 2 months straight, take a deep breath and read on. I don't want to experience any of these things because after a broken femur I think childbirth and all that goes along with it is next in line. Bryan Regan may say a 9 for childbirth but then again he is a guy, how would he know. You ladies are incredible. What I am trying to say is all of the physical discomfort aside, I think the emotional-hormonal rollercoaster that is child birth is much more difficult then any man will ever understand. Its like getting a hole in one in golf and getting a swift kick to the jimmy all at the same time. You don't know whether to be ecstatic or crumple on the ground in pain.

I love my wife. She is amazing. I watch her each day battle with the constant rollercoaster of emotions. I see the frustration in her eyes as she wonders where the emotions come from and why she doesn't feel like she is herself. I will never understand the difficulty of what she is going through or what all women have gone through but what I do know is she is amazing. I don't know if I could handle the constant attack from this "non-physical" challenge but Lesa never gives up. Through the tears and the trials she never gives up.

I will never experience what a women goes through both physically and emotionally during pregnancy and I am thankful for that. Lesa, you are amazing! You are doing a great job! No, your not crazy or insane and yes I still love you. I love you more now then ever before. I love your tenacity, your dedication, and your unstoppable will to fight through whatever challenge is in front of you. I love you. You're doing an incredible job and you are a better wife and mother of my children then I could have ever dreamed of marrying.

I don't get it nor do I ever want to