apostle luke

Im finally starting to understand why people talk about this whole pregnancy in 'weeks'. i'm like the apostle paul in a lot of ways...especially in the way of, i always made fun of people who talked like that. i mean, why couldn't you just say that "she's three months along" or "we've got another two months till it comes out". But now that i have been blinding on the road to damascus (hospital...all the parallels) i see that the only way to talk about it is in weeks. its tough to explain, but here it goes...it just gets annoying to keep saying "two and a half months along" from weeks 9 to 11...i mean, we all want to feel like we're making progress through this thing and by talking in weeks, they go by faster and can get to a higher number. So it gives us the illusion that all this time has passed by and we are making progress. i mean, how much cooler does the number 28 sound than 7? it seems like you've gone a much further way with the number 28 behind ya than 7.

(and yes, i did compare myself to paul...deal with it)