Well It's Been 4 Years. How You All Doing?

Thought i would drop in and say hello, I truly miss being on here but since i stopped pipe 4 years ago i haven't bothered to come back. Until recently i joined a Foodie group on FB and to my surprise i found the Admin to be none other then Kevin himself. I sent him a Message to say hi and then i got this feeling i used to get when posting on here and i felt like i wanted to say hi to all of you, or those of you that remember me at least.
Though i stopped smoking pipe, cellaring tobacco and sold off most of my stock i do still have a few pipes and enough tobacco that could last me year in my cellar. Which is aging away for when I get the itch to relive that bliss one day. The reason i stopped is a long and sad story to be honest so i rather not burst in with negative vibes on my first post back but the story has an extremely happy ending as of July 9th 2017 the birth of my beautiful daughter Laila.
Anyhow if you know who i am just want to say hi and to those that im still in contact with on varies Social Media outlets im glad that i know you all. Stay Smokey if i can even say that haha.

Thank you Gentlemen, I am grateful for the thanks and happy to back on here conversing with the finest. It was always a pleasure to part take in the many discussions on here, and i will aim to visit more often.
As far as being a father it has been better then i could have ever imagine and i had plenty of years to imagine it believe me.
My wife and i were one of the many that suffer from unexplained infertility it was an uphill battle for 5 years with many depressing times some more then others, we lost our baby boy to a Still birth at 20 weeks we look at it now as gaining an angel. We had our Laila on our second attempt of IVF she is our little miracle.
Me quitting smoking was a decision made with the hopes of limiting any setbacks that could effect our fertile state. Whether that was the reason for success or not i don't know but i just wanted the best possible circumstances.
Anyway things are great now Laila is approaching 10 months old and she is meeting all her milestones with flying colours, shes a small one being born two weeks premature but that has not stopped her from reaching her heights and beyond. I couldn't be prouder or happier of my wife and daughter.