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I got the packet of information, and started looking it over. Then it hit me....would I be able to provide for this child as I do my own? Would I be able to keep up our current standard of living (giving extras like Tai Kwan Do classes or movies on the weekends)? Would I be able to send the other child to these classes too, or have to take my son out? What about college? What about if the new child needed braces, or a shrink or something? Would I be taking away from my son because of my own need for another child? Am I right to even attempt this? Everyone I have talked to says it is so cool that I'm thinking about it, but no one says anything now that I'm having second thoughts. (My mother told me I'm out of my mind - I got all I can afford with one child.) Any comments on this? Should I go ahead and take the classes, even with my doubts, or should I forget it? I don't want to give up our comfortable life style. We're not rich, but we're doing okay. With another child in the picture, my son might have to give up his Tai Kwan Do classes, and our weekend trips to the movies....Might being the key word. I just don't know. (And I am a firm believer in you can't give one without giving the same to the other...so if my son is taking the classes, the other child would have to be able to, too.)

Bottom line - do you all think I should go ahead with this, or am I wasting everyone's time?

Thanks for listening.