"If something goes right tonight, we'll miss you"

On Monday, my students started to ask some very interesting questions:


*Will they make an announcement if you leave school to go into labor?
* Are you standing with your legs crossed because you are afraid your water will break?
*Are you sure you won't be able to skype teach us?
* Will you send us an e-mail/picture of the lil' buddy?
*Are you afraid it's going to hurt?
* SVO, can you please not have the baby in class? My mom (an OBGYN doctor) gave me a crash course on what to do.



On Tuesday, they started putting baby predictions on my whiteboard. Ironically, I don't think one student had me having the baby before Friday.

On Wednesday, I heard a lot of "Oh, you're still here!" comments.

On Thursday, I got a lot of "come on SVO you can make it one more day!".

And every day this week, the same student has left class and said, "SVO, if something goes right tonight, we'll miss you." As I think about this week, I'm overwhelmed by how much they care about me. It's not often that teachers get reminders that students are people, too. And I know, that even though I'll be pretty busy with the lil' buddy, I'll miss them, too.