Purky Baby Update

Review and Outlook

by Jim Purky


I have to take this last opportunity to bore all of you with a few details about my new daughter, Lelia Jane Purky. As reported previously, she was born two months premature, but as of June 18, 1999 she is about 16 pounds, is doing well and must have the strongest set of lungs that I have ever heard. The colic period, which lasted from November 1998 to mid-February 1999, is thankfully over and we all get a good night's sleep.

Being a daddy is ten times more work than I ever would have imagined, and now I understand why fellow wargamers sort of "drop out of sight" after they have children. I'm told that things will begin to normalize in about two more years. I might actually begin to attend a few wargames now and again.

Whenever I wonder what I got myself into, I remember little Lelia's face and how it lights up with a gorgeous smile when she sees me for the first time each day or when I come home from work. It makes you realize how the needs of your family must come before all hobbies and other activities. Maybe when Lelia is about 8 years old, I can introduce her to skirmish wargaming and ward off the influence of Barbie dolls.

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