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It's been forever since I've been on dA, but I am back.  No one's probably going to see this, but if you do...  Well, I don't know what will happen.  I guess you'll see it and get on with life.

Today marked the birth of my one and only child.  A daughter we named Ivy Jane.  There was always a part of me that never wanted children.  That part of me was always a little disgusted by all those parents that shove their pictures of the kids in your faces and sell chocolate bars (or take orders for cookies) at work for some fund raising thing at their kids' school or scout troop.  I was always bothered that my friends who had kids never had time to do anything that didn't revolve around their kids.  I was always a little aggravated by those people who's kids are always the ones screaming at the top of their lungs that they want a certain t

I've been noticing for a bit now that I'm getting older.  Now, I know that's nothing out of the ordinary.  We all get older each and every day.  The thing of it that I'm now noticing, is that I hadn't really noticed it before.  I just turned 37 at the end of August, which I know isn't that old when you get down to it, but up until this point in my life I've been a bachelor, living day by day and doing pretty much whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted to do it.  Now, though, I'm in a very committed relationship with a woman with 4 kids and we have one together coming in a few months.  Now, I have responsibilities.  Now, people depend on me.  No