The History of 10! Push Kristin Push!

So just a little bit ago, Collin came out to the waiting room and disclosed some fantastic news to us. He proudly proclaimed that Kristin was at 10! Now I'm sitting in the "family area" and most everyone is sleeping or praying. I've done one but I'm too excited to do the other, so I'll give you a bit of a history lesson while we wait.

The word ten comes from the root Greek word of tenopaulus which means "lady of the race" which was a derivative of Miss Mary Isaacs' voyage from Spain in 1810 to parts unknown. Miss Mary Isaacs' ship was a competitive sailing ship on the high seas and at the end of her last voyage it was discovered that she had gone insane hundreds of hours before and had been racing an opponent that never existed, a figment of her own mind which she described as a strange clown-seal-Behemoth woman by the name of Marge who Miss Mary (pictured to the left) claimed had stolen her reading glasses when they were last at port. The ships crew assumed she was just in a hurry to get somewhere so they dare not question her authority. The last words Miss Mary Isaacs spoke before she was shut away in an institution were "push, dang you, push!" in reference to the wind in the ship's sails. That is why, to this day, that nurses, upon discovering that a mother in labor is at a 10, that they ask the mother to push. Tada! History. It's fun. Now go and read a book without pictures.

Disclaimer: Keep in mind that at some point in my life, my education and my imagination became entangled in a bloody mess so you cannot assume that what you have read is completely factual or fictional or either. It might possibly be some mixture of the two, a fictactualional, if you will.

In the words of Miss Mary Isaacs, push Kristin push! We're rooting for you! We're praying for you! You're making history as we speak!!!!!