Having Children

AW and I met via the Internet in 1999, ten years ago this month. I'll tell the story of how that came about some other time.

The 1990's had been a very rough decade for me in the "love life" department. After my marriage to Carter's mother shockingly and abruptly ended in 1994, I spent most of my time focused on the new job of "half time single father" which had been unexpectedly thrust upon me. This, too will have to be a story I tell, if at all, at a later date.

What I am getting at, I guess, is that by the time I found the love of my life, I had already been raising a kid for eight years. I had my own house, my own business, and was well into my 30's.

I remember AW asking me, over one of our many candle lit dinners, if I would consider having another child, this time with her. After some contemplation, I told her that it had seemed to me, especially as I got older, that the most meaningful part of my life had been being a father, and that the joys had been indescribable. Why wouldn't I want to experience that again? And with someone with some substance this time?

Yes, I told her, I would consider having another child, but probably not more than one......

And so the chain reaction began.