[MissEdie]

Your post makes me feel better- don't have children yet (hopefully will have in the next couple of years) but want a pool in my backyard, hubby doesn't. Hope to get one within the next 5 years, maybe longer if we do have children just to err on the side of caution, however if my better-half sees this article it will be a nonissue in our house, there will be no pool.

[poobear]

missedie, you will be fine because you will love your children as gifts. They will become your life not so much as a replacement but a new place where your love can grow.

Never taking them for granted or taking your eye off of them for ONE SECOND will get them to adulthood, which is our greatest assignment and obligation!

I could go on... good luck

[poobear]

Darling. get a pool or not, have common since, guard your children and of course love them. That's all.