In a message dated 8/29/01 12:40:04 AM, MtnGal@SIERRATEL.COM writes:

<< The kids are doing well here. Dare I mess them up? >>

MtnGal,

If the kids are 12 or older, stay put.  Sure, they will adapt, but it will be
harder for them to do the older they are.  When they are adults they will
have ample opportunity to practice adaptation.  Regardless of what the
marketing wizard's would want you to believe, one thing I have learned about
kids is that they do not really want the latest and the greatest, they want
the tried and true.

Since you opened up this Pandora's box and I have never been one to slam shut
its lid, I must offer one more morsel of officiousness: forget about that
moving in together stuff.  If you love one another, get serious and get
married especially because there are kids treading water in the eddies of
this romance.

Richard