[Albion Wilde]

My father told me, “If you change your mind at the last minute, we’ll still eat all the food and drink all the champagne.”

PS

Now that you've given him 10 grandkids, has your dad come around to thinking it will work out?

[Tax-chick]

Yes ... although he was always ready to back up any decision I made, even 15 years later (other than moving back in with him and Mom ;-). My parents’ friends and neighbors are surprised when the see all the pictures in their apartment, especially when they find out it’s all one family.

They also get surprised comments on the fact that none of the children have (by the standards of their generation) strange, trendy names. Any one of them could run for President with his heavyweight moniker.