My free time (and my wife’s) will greatly increase. I will be 27 (which is very odd-sounding). I know am already mentally ready, willing, and able. I greatly look forward to fatherhood. Plus, that will mean it’s only 18 short years until I can tell my kid to declare for the NBA draft and I can retire to a life of wealthful debauchery. Frankly, it sounds like a plan to me.
So, kid time. Yes or no. If the final answer is yes, you will all understand if I don’t spend much time posting in March of 2002.
And while I realize that my wife may have issues with using her innards as the basis for a public poll, I am pretty sure she can live with it since I have done far more embarrassing things in far more public situations. I now return you to your regularly scheduled thread.
I don’t know you or your wife, I don’t know anything about your personalities or circumstances, so I will offer no opinion as to whether you should have children at all.
However, ASSUMING you both want children at some point, and are financially/emotionally ready to deal with them, I advise you to do it now… or in the next few years, at any rate, as opposed to waiting until you’re in your mid-30s, when all kinds of physical complications begin to arise.
Spoken like a true Republican. Good to see ya around Mully. I vote you try for a little Mullinite? Mullintot? Mullintoddler? and we’ll excuse your absence come next March. Besides, it’s about time you lost your virginity, ain’t it?
Oh, people think they make good Christmas presents, they’re so cute and cuddly when they’re little. But then they find out how much trouble they are and by New Year’s Eve they’re back at the pound. Tragic, really.
Seriously, there will never be a time when you feel completely, absolutely certain that it’s the right time. Sounds like this is as good as any.
Sure, go for it! You might want to start practicing soon, though, because not everyone’s puppies are prepared to swim on the first go!
My husband and I are working on this same project as we speak (well, not literally…he’s not home from work yet). Good luck and have fun!
Not so sure (considering the tone of the Original Post) that you’re looking for a serious answer here, but just in case you are:
Are you sure you and your wife are meant for each other, and will be able to stick together until the progeny is/are adults? A divorce can be traumatic for children. How long have you been married? Do you really want to have children or are you thinking that having a child would be fun?
But I’m assuming that you have thought of and discussed all these things, so if you want to have children, go for it!
Mull, sounds like we’re at similar places in our lives. I’ve thought it through, and think July 2003 is the perfect time to have a little Cazzling, so I hope to be in the early stages of pregnancy next Christmas. Don’t try for a Christmas baby!! It sucks getting all your presents in December and then having a whole year until the next lot (so I hear). I have a cousin who was born on Christmas Day, poor kid.
The way I figure it, July means early pregnancy in the summer months, heavy pregnancy in the winter months, 7 months after and 5 months before Christmas - nice spacing - and few other family members born in July. You may want to adjust for your hemisphere and family. Months that are out include May and December, since 80% of the people we know were born in those two months. July is sparcely populated. August and September are also acceptable (September is the start of Spring, after all).
A lot of time on my hands? Why would you say that?
From an education standpoint, September is not a good time especially if Mullintot is going to be extremely bright. Most states have an age set and by what date (usually September) that the child must be that age before they can start school. For example, in Texas you must be five on or before September 1st to enroll in Kindergarten. That means if Mullintot is born September 2nd that’s too darn bad. He or she will have to wait another year to begin school.
Good god man, don’t do it. You and the wife can take out your own trash, shovel your own snow, cut your own grass, clean out your own garage, put yourselves INTO YOUR OWN NURSING HOME. You don’t need a money sucking pseudo-clone of youself for that…
