The One Event That Will Drive an Event Planner Nuts
Well, it’s finally here: today is my wife’s due date!
After 40 long weeks of anticipation, excitement, fear, discomfort, restless sleep and curiosity beyond belief, we’ve made every preparation we can think of in advance of the Big Event:
- My wife’s stopped working, and I’ve cleared my schedule of any corporate team building events in NYC or anywhere else in the coming weeks
- The “go bag” is stocked with clothes, toothpaste and PowerBars
- My contraction timer app is at the ready
- The glider chair has been purchased and placed in the perfect spot
- Diaper Genie has been tested, re-tested, and then tested again
- Freezer is stocked with organic chicken nuggets & my favorite frozen burritos
I’d say we’re pretty much set. But guess what?
Still no baby.
So, we wait. More tidying up the apartment, more crossword puzzles, more NetFlix. It seems that when it comes to waiting for a baby, you can prepare as much as an event planner like me would like – it doesn’t matter, because the kid’s gonna come when the kid comes, and that’s pretty much all there is to it.
What’s that famous quote – something about man planning, and God laughing?
I’m sure the Lord is having himself quite a chuckle right now, watching me assemble yet another piece of baby gear, and then dragging the boxes out to the curb during a torrential windstorm. Or testing the range of the video baby monitor – like I’m ever going to be more than 10 feet from the kid. It seems the only thing I’ve been able to successfully plan and execute lately is doing the laundry (which I totally rocked, by the way).
And so, as 2011 draws to a close, at least one event planner is stuck cooling his heels waiting for the biggest event of his life. But that’s okay – it’ll give me the chance to test out the Diaper Genie one last time.
I’m writing sporadically this week, in anticipation of my wife giving birth at any moment. Be cool – next I write will hopefully be with good news! Will be back with daily posts soon – see you then!