A week ago a new nephew entered our family. His name is Charlie and he came one week early. Nevertheless, it was a long wait. After my sister-in-law had been in labor for nearly ten hours, the action pretty much stopped. My brother texted me: “We’re kind of bored.” I chuckled, and hoped he didn’t think I was condescending when I texted back, “Sleep now while you can.” Waiting is hard. About ten years ago John and I were trying to sell a house and buy one in The Woodlands and I was always up and down with the good news-bad news of having a house on the market. My dear husband tried to lighten my mood by quoting a line from The Simpsons one night: “Now we play the waiting game!” and answering himself with Homer’s line, “Awww, I wanna play Hungry, Hungry Hippos.” So on a whim one night in a hotel we bought the game and probably caused no little annoyance to our neighbors as we drank glasses of wine and played that crazy noisy game....