Something I have been thinking about!

[lkboles]

I have always known I have wanted at least tewo kids.  When I had Aubrey I didn't realize how much it would cost me to have her and I had decided based on money that I wouldn't have any more.  Well lately I have been thinking I want more kids eventually and maybe I would want 3 or 4 kids.  I am not going to let money affect me anymore.  My husband said he would work two jobs to support us so I could stay at home with the kids or maybe I could work at night part time when he gets off. I couldn't believe it!! We just want to pay off our 20% mortgage soon though so we are gonna double up our payments and our christmas bonuses at work and our taxes will go to paying it off.  So hopefully we can pay it off in 3 years.  It is only about 15,000.  So the other thing I have been thinking of is getting off birth control and going the natural family planning method.  I have started going back to Catholic Church and want to get off birth control I have read some stuff about it and have realized I don't really believe in some of the things it does.  So I could use some input on this!! Thanks!!

[coleyBoosmom]

Jun. 12, 2008 at 9:53 PM You've gotta have atleast two.  We can't afford more or we would definately have more with all the activities I love to do with them.  Plus, we both have careers that we do not want to give up and daycare is crazy expensive in Maine.

[mshatch0613]

Jun. 12, 2008 at 11:09 PM well... i wanted a big family, hubby didn't. i wanted a boy and now i have two. hubby now is the happiest man ever because we're blessed with two sons. i was on birth control and just quit it i got pregnant a month later. if its meant to be it will happen. good luck.

[Laura_Lee]

Jul. 25, 2008 at 4:09 PM

I jumped off of birth control THEY DAY I found out that it wasn't really a contraceptive...but that it was abortifacient. I PRAY that I never had a pregnancy that didn't "take" because of the pill. I have four beautiful children and three stepchildren, and at the time that at I went off the pill my husband had been a heart patient for six months. We decided that due to his uncertain heart condition we shouldn't have any more. I was heartbroken, but saw the logic of it. He had a vasectomy a year and a half ago. I would have gotten pregnant again. No doubt. I ovulate when I'm THINKING about babies.

I still have the baby bug. WHen I see babies I automatically think about how nice it would be to have another, even before I think of why we won't. I just get my baby fix in the church nursery. Maybe when my kids are bigger I'll keep somebody's infant or something. The whole pregnancy, breastfeeding child-rearing thing is so precious, I never want it to be over.

If you asked most people, they'd say that no matter what their circumstances, their lives would never be the same without their kids. It's possible to raise kids well without a lot of money. You just have to make careful lifestyle choices.

Good Luck.