-=> Quoting Maurice Kinal to Nancy Backus on 09-12-07  15:05 <=-

 NB>> Unfortunately... that isn't going to do any good...  He already knows
 NB>> that I'd like to have them, at least eventually... and he's already
 NB>> referred to her kids as "the closest you're likely to come
to grands 
 NB>> at least for a while"...

 MK> I'd probably claim them then.  What do the kids think about all this?
 
They refer to me as "John's Mom"...  :)   I'm not sure quite what
they've even decided about him.  But they seem ready to accept any
friendly adult as an addition to their circle... whether that makes us
family or not, I'm not sure.  But then, they're pretty young yet, 4, 3
and 16months.

 NB>> develop into such.  So far he's mostly still looking for what's in it
 NB>> for him... not a good sign...

 MK> Hm.  That is a tough call from this angle.  For humans that isn't
 MK> uncommon.  The trick is that what is in it for him be best for what's
 MK> in it for all of them.

Nice theory... ;)  Yeah, if that be the case, then it isn't so bad...
I'm willing to hope that will be the case, but I'm not that rosy as to
plan on it...
 
 MK> Understood.  That seems to be the trend these days.  It occured to me
 MK> the other day that I have now been single for more years than I was
 MK> married not counting the years I was single before being married. 
 MK> Overall it seems to have worked out.
 MK> Life is good,

With your sign-off, yes, I'd say that overall it seems to have worked
out...  :)   Interestingly, I have now been married longer than I was
single... and I got married at the ripe old age of 24... not exactly a
youngster, but admittedly not terribly old, either... :)  We've had our
ups and downs, but overall, here too, it seems to have worked out.  :)

ttyl        neb

... Avoid that run down feeling. Stay on the sidewalk.

___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20

--- ViaMAIL!/WC v1.60d