Playing Dad

--- This is an old draft that I thought I would post anyway.

Fact! 97% of men with CF have infertility. Essentially it is caused by congenital absence of the vas deferens. The boys are there, they are just stuck there... no exit tunnel.

JG and I have decided that at this point we probably won't be having any children. Now before you go all crazy on me about adoption, etc, please realize that this is a decision that we did not come to lightly, and we feel inspiration from above that it is the correct choice that we have made. That said we had a pretty eventful weekend a little while ago when we took some kids with us on a road trip. We took a nephew and niece on a road trip for 3 days to visit some other family members. Their parents were having a hard time just a little ago, and split up for about a month. Luckily they are back together, but it was very stressful for the 4 and 6 year olds, because JG's schooling is on children and psycho-social she is very aware of these things and so we decided that they needed a vacation.
So for 3 days I got to play dad. It wasn't so bad. But I can see how you would get tired really easily. At one point we were on the freeway and the 6 yo got sick and we had to pull over quickly so he didn't hurl in the car. This was a not such a new experience for me, JG gets car sick all the time, but usually she can control the gag reflex.
Anyway, We enjoyed being with the kids and they were complete angels the whole time.
It will be hard not having our own, but we know that it is the right thing.

Now if we could just stop being frustrated and sad when someone else has a kid... well maybe someday.