Hi KenF: Seems we were posting at the same time...so I overlapped. It was a tough decision - but S11 helped me with it - and I also remembered that the better school district won't matter for at least a year - and by then I hope to move to someplace more permanent - maybe buy a place in the better school district...so whichever place we chose for now would be temporary - and temporary with the park, soccer fields, playground, farmers market and quiet streets easily trumped temporary with pool...My S11 goes to summer camp at the Aquatic Center at the Rose Bowl - so he gets his fill of pool time there...
I'm glad you're back on the board, Ken. Our journeys were so very similar for so long - we diverged a bit along the way - but I think the personal growth we both came to was something that we also shared.
Sounds like you did well with the time together at family day...
Keep working on you - making yourself the best man you can be - that's the best gift we can extract from this painful experience...since it's the purest way of giving to the people we love - and especially to those that turn to us for hope, love and comfort...our children.
