"Evan! What are you hiding? There isn't a bun in the oven is there?" This calls for all the celebratory cheek pinches.

"You do what any good dad who travels does: spend quality time while your home, talk to the kids on the phone or chat or email, bring them presents. Plenty of fathers--and mothers--travel because of work. You saying they're all bad parents?" And now she's serious. "Your folks are wonderful. You learned the important stuff from them--stuff like love and caring and not smothering. There is absolutely, categorically no way you could ever be a bad parent. You wouldn't worry about it now if you were going to be horrible later. Bad parents don't. They don't care."