Thanks NOS, I think I can handle it, It's like riding a bike, you never really forget how. I agree K.C. life begins at 40, my life that is. My plans for me being 40 is just having more time for Mrs. PCS like we were back in our 20's, before my daughter arrived. As a matter of fact my plan is to pick right back up where we left off when I was 22. I travel a lot now for work, but most times Mrs. PCS does not attend. I see a lot of traveling together in our future as soon as my daughter goes off to college. My parents own a home in St. Croix US Virgin Islands and we have a place in Conroe, TX that we like to get away to.
Thanks for the advice zhawk, my thinking is almost on par with yours, but my wife counters that I'm a really good father to my daughter and think how much better you'd be if another one came along now, truth is having a daughter was a piece of cake, just because she was my daughter and not my son helped make me a good father, since she was and is a good kid that has always gotten good grades in school and has known that she wants to be a doctor, since she was 6 years old. I feel if I had a son, I would be less successful as a parent because in my mind, we would always be butting heads on issues, but who knows I could be wrong, I'm basing that on my own relationship growing up with my own parents, they would say something was white, I would say it was black, they would say it was black, I would say it was white, you get the picture. Having a son scares the $h! out of me just for that reason, I don't know if I have the strength to have those kind of running battles into my late 50's. I've become a better son to my father as I have gotten older. When my father had his massive stroke last summer and we thought he was going to die, I read the copy of his will that he left in my safe deposit box should anything happen to him, out of his three sons I was the only one he called his beloved son, maybe because I was the oldest or the one that broke him in as a parent or maybe he just loved to fight with me, I don't know, the sad thing is I will never know.
Your right about one thing, this is something we (me & the Mrs.) need to talk about, and soon. I think if we do decide to have another child and it's a boy, I will name it after my dad.