An eventful morning that has now slowed down

Well, our day started off eventful. I woke up at 4am with a few signs of early labor. Nothing painful or real alarming, though. When Gene asked me what was wrong I said, "Ummm, I don't think you're going to work today." He then proceeded to (in his "spastic Gene sort of way") jump out of bed, flip on all the lights, start a load of laundry (something that was on my to-do list for the day), jump in the shower, and walk back into the bedroom chugging a bottle of Mountain Dew. This whole time I was just laying in bed thinking, "What in the world is he doing?" I told him that he should just come back to bed and get some more sleep for now. He proceeded to say that he was going to go to work to make sub plans and get things together for the week. I said, "Ok. I'm tired. I'm going back to bed."

I woke up at 9:30. The phone was ringing, and it was Gene saying that he was on his way back home from school. I called the dr. to see if he would want to see me today because of my symptoms. The receptionist said that my dr. is not in today. I told her my symptoms and she told me that he wouldn't want to see me anyway because everything sounded like normal signs of early labor and to just stay at home.

Now Gene is at home with me again, and we're just sitting around waiting for something to happen...like we've been the past two weeks. My goal for today is to get Gene to take a nap later. He had one Mountain Dew, one energy drink, and a large coffee drink from Caribou...all before 10:00 this morning. He only had four hours of sleep last night. I predict he'll be crashing in about two hours.

There were many blessings this morning, though:

--Gene's principal told him to split his class up into three groups and distribute them among the other three fourth grade teachers for the week. This means he didn't have to make sub plans for the week. For any teachers out there, you know that this is the BIGGEST blessing a teacher could get.
--Gene also found out that his report card grades are not due until next Monday, meaning he'll have all next weekend to complete them. Originally we thought he might have to be filling in bubble sheets in between helping me breathe through contractions. :)
--After talking to my mom today, I found out that she "happened" to wake up this morning at 4:30am, right when I was waking up here in MD with pains. She said she suddenly felt that she needed to pray for me, so she did. I was wondering why I didn't freak out this morning when I woke up with these symptoms. God had already positioned people ahead of time to be praying for me so that I would feel His peace and not anxiousness. This fills me with hope for tomorrow!