You've got questions. We've got answers.

  Humans are naturally curious. We wonder about this, that, and the other. There are questions we ask, and questions we don't.

About a decade ago, I spent a summer working as a tour guide at a WWI battlefield in northern France. It was a great experience, and I learned a lot about Newfoundland, Canadian military history, and finding entertainment in small-town Picardie. However, I (and the other guides) quickly learned that we had been hired to answer the same few questions, over and over again, the answers to which:

A: Yes, we're all students.
B: Philosophy.
C: Yes, from Canada.
D: No, not from Newfoundland, although some of our coworkers are, and have dubbed us honourary Newfoundlanders.
E: Yes, it really does make you think.

A few years later, I spent a year teaching English in South Korea. When I spoke to friends and acquaintances from home, I again got many of the same questions repeatedly, the answers to which:
A: Yes, I liked it a lot.
B: The students spoke some English already, but most didn't speak it fluently.
C: Yes, I already knew how to use chopsticks.
D: Yes, I learned some Korean.

And so forth.

And what are your answers when you tell someone you're expecting twins?

  A: I know! Two!
  B: We don't know the gender(s), nor do we intend to find out before they are born.
  C: Yup. Twins!
  D: Do they run in the family? They do now.
  E: Nope, not identical.
  F: They each have their own placenta, whereas identical twins typically share one.
  G: She'll continue working until she can't or they're born, whichever comes first.
  H: That's right. Twins!
  I: The grandparents are thrilled.
  J: Yes. Twins. Really.

Every so often, of course, are the questions less frequently posed, those that require more than a single rote sentence to answer. In Korea, I actually set up a portion of my blog to answer these. And, I thought, why not do the same thing here?

Ask a Father-to-be-of-Twins (FtboT)! Send your questions to twinfestation (at) gmail dot com, where they will be answered with haste and good cheer.