$204,080

Minus roughly $25,000 to $50,000 and multiplied by three, the above number represents (bad career choices didn't help much, either) why I've never been to Rome, why I live in a home built the year JFK was inaugurated, drive a ten year old car, and have holes in half of my jockey shorts.

That number represents the cost of raising a child born in the year 2012, which has risen by an average of 4.4% since the 1960s.

Truth be told, a hundred times that amount (not that I could have afforded it) wouldn't have been too much.

The joy they have brought me and their mothers has been worth every penny.

Peace.
emaycee