Our life is really really mellow at home. Our animals are all family. Thank goodness we never had children: we are not the type this time around. BJG seems not too miffed by it though he mentions he would have like children but I suspect more just to be like his dad and mom than from a  real calling. We are way too unstable to raise kids. It would have been a terrible mistake and the end of me. As we have it now, it is perfect: pets.