I look up from my work as a gaggle of my middle school students barge into my classroom and line up like a team of teenage vigilantes, fists on hips, chins raised defiantly.<\/p>
“Mrs. Kibbie,” addresses their leader, “have you found out yet?”<\/p>
“Guys, I told you — I don’t know the gender of the baby.”<\/p>
My ears are assaulted by a chorus of seriously’s<\/em> and are you kidding me’s<\/em>.<\/p> “I thought your husband knew,” another accuses me. “You said last time he knew and he ended up telling you.”<\/p> “Yeah, last time he found out and it was supposed to be a secret from me,” I replied, sticking my pen in my hair bun. “And he lasted about 12 hours.”<\/p> “OK, but it’s been weeks. Hasn’t he cracked yet?”<\/p> “To his credit, no,” I laughed to another cacophony of groans. “I’m not going to find out until the birth.”<\/p> “Kibbie, COME ON!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I look up from my work as a gaggle of my middle school students barge into my classroom and line up like a team of teenage vigilantes, fists on hips, chins raised defiantly.“Mrs. Kibbie,” addresses their leader, “have you found out yet?”“Guys, I told you — I don’t know the gender of the baby.”My ears […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":198683,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2024-11-13T23:18:14Z","apple_news_api_id":"42985b65-f13c-4046-b54b-77187f8fc723","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2024-11-13T23:18:58Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AQphbZfE8QEa1S3cYf4_HIw","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,53],"tags":[341,3164,223],"featured":[],"internal-tag":[],"series":[],"class_list":{"2":"type-post"},"acf":[],"apple_news_notices":[],"yoast_head":"\n