Today’s challenge topic is How does your life measure up compared to what you imagined.
Growing up, I wanted to be a lawyer. I wanted to have kids, but I never wanted to get married. I know that’s kind of weird, but it wasn’t important to me. When I got to college, I decided I didn’t want to be an attorney. You can read about that here.
So far, I have a house, a boyfriend, 2 amazing kids and hopefully 3 more in the future. I don’t think I’m too far off base from where I hoped to be someday. I did, however, want to be the first U. S. President, but I decided against that a long time ago. Kids are where my heart is. I always knew that when I had kids, I didn’t want somebody else raising them. I wanted to be home with my kids. (Please don’t let this offend anybody whose kids go to day care, but when I use to teach kids, I always felt like I was helping to raise some of them since they were with us 40+ hours a week). I am a Realtor, I work from home, take the kids with me to show houses, and get to spend my days with my little ones. This means the world to me.
I did expect to have John home helping me, but the only way it works right now, is if he stays at his job, which means a lot of traveling out of state.
Odd as it may seem, I feel like life is way better than I ever could have imagined when I was growing up.
How about you? How does your life compare to what you expected growing up?
Kids were on my ‘to do’ list long before ‘getting married’ was – I tell my husband sometimes that I only married him for the kids! 🙂 (Not entirely true, but ‘having kids’ was definitely a deal-breaker!)
Glad to hear I’m not the only one!
Yep. I agree with you. One of our big reasons for wanting me to stay home is that we did not want to feel like someone else was raising our daughter. Don’t get me wrong. My son went to daycare when he was young and he has turned into a wonderful young man, but I always think about how much I missed with him that I can never get back… 🙁
That’s how I felt reading your post!
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I know my life has not turned out the way I thought. At all! I myself wanted to be the lawyer with a huge house on a ranch with tons of horses and a cowboy as my man. Lol well I have the opposite. Do not even have a dog!
It’s funny how differently things turn out. Did you get the cowboy?
It’s wonderful that you have your kids. I hope you can continue to stay home with them.
Thank you!
That’s great that you are able to stay home with your children and they can see you working as well. A lot of kids don’t have that opportunity to see a parent on the job. I stay at home with my daughters as well and wouldn’t trade that for the world.
I never thought of it that way. Tomorrow we are going to the office for the first time since the little guy was born.Maggie loves showing houses!
This is a great topic, mainly because very rarely does our life end up how we planned it when we were younger….which isn’t always a bad thing! I like these blog topic challenges, I might start doing them!!!
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Thank you for the follow! You should join the challenge. It’s fun! I wish I could get caught up though.