Cutter, you got through it! Your niece is sweet.And it sounds like you ended the night on a positive even though this is probably the hardest thing any of us have dealt with (the A).
One more holiday to go before 2010... (at least in the USA)
me,34 exH,34 S,16 months S:3/31/09-left for OW started DBing 10/09 d final: sometime 10/10 current: http://www.divorcebusting.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=2022856&page=1 met in 2004