[Sukotto]

I have 2 kids and an infant. My wife works most weekends (fri noon through sun night) so I spend my weekends as "single dad".

Lots of playing on the floor, going to the park, cooking, and that sort of thing.

It's a reasonably good life though I sometimes envy you single, childless guys for the enormous number of hours you get for yourselves. You think you know. But you really have no idea just how much time you have right now. Enjoy it

So from that perspective here's my advice. Do all the stuff you can't do when you have kids. Have lots of sex. Go on spur-of-the-moment day trips. Stay up late and sleep all day. Take flying lessons, or dancing lessons,or whatever. Seriously work towards ticking off items on your bucket list. Don't just sit around though because as soon as you have kids your combined disposable income, free time, and social flexibility shrink to a thousandth of a percent of what you have now (that's only a small exaggeration

[cheald]

> Do all the stuff you can't do when you have kids. Have lots of sex.

Boy, there's a self-defeating setup if I ever saw one. <g>

[geuis]

True, but you have a family. There's a lot of value in that...

[spydum]

This is so spot on -- I am in the same position (and I wouldn't trade it for the world).

[poissonpie]

so so true.....i can't actually remember the last time i read a book that didn't have pictures in it.....but man, you can't beat having a child :)