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The Next 5 Years
in GP Moms
Not the musical (any other Broadway dorks out there?)...
Where do you see yourself in the next 5 years? What do you hope to accomplish? Where do you want to be (location, career, personally, in your marriage, etc)? How do you picture your family?
Re: The Next 5 Years
Great question!!!
I see myself with, god willing, one or two more kids. I hope to dabble in the family business a bit but mostly stay at home. I would like to be at a happy weight. One that has me living a long life for my boys (hubby included!)
Realistically.....
I may or may not still be married. I'll still be at this same stupid job. I'll still be in my same small house. Kaitlyn will be healthy and loved.
Optimistically.....
DH and I will be happy and house-hunting for a bigger place. I could possibly have a new job and he might climb a ladder rung at work and actually be happier with his company. Kaitlyn will be healthy and loved.
ETA: Hello! I'm your Negative Nancy/Debbie Downer for today.
BFP Chart
My five year plan, two years ago, included moving back home and being near our families. The issue is, my H's company closed their office back home so the likelihood of us moving back is zilch unless he changes his career.
I guess in five years from now, I hope Samantha is a big sister, I hope my pup is still healthy, I hope the housing market comes back so we can sell our home and build the next BACK HOME. The issue is if my H wants to move into senior management we will have to move to a HCOL area where I do not want to raise my family, so I hope another exciting opportunity will present itself allowing the best of both worlds for us.
After 31 cycles and two losses, we've been blessed with a healthy baby girl!
Congrats to both of my amazing TTC Buddies, tdmd09 and sb2006!!
Life of Amberley
In five years I am hoping to have two kids and to have gone through my lupron treatment and be feeling good and not have to wrestle with the idea of getting a hysterectomy and rather be thinking about having a third kid.
We will hopefully have our forever home. I will be completing my MS in Psychology and working on becoming a licensed marriage and family therapist.
Five years seems so close yet so far away.
Much of my plan is based on how my endometriosis treats me. Right now it is not treating me well and it is making it hard to be optimistic.
Our Little Raspberry-Born 3/27/12
We Said I Do 09/06/09
In 5 years I hope to not be living in GA (of course I don't get a say in where we actually will be living- just hope its not here!) I'd like to have 2 more children and stay at home with them. Maybe try my hand at making and selling quilts on etsy and be a healthier person weight-wise.
I'm afraid I'm rather boring....
Congrats to my TTC buddies Amberley18 and tdmd09!
After 25 months- medicated cycles and a failed IUI- The most planned surprise baby ever is on his way!
Team Green to Team Pink! Baby A born
Here comes 2u2! Team Green to Team Blue! Baby L born
In five years, I see myself back to working full time because the kid(s?) is in school and my real estate business is in full swing. Justin has started his own marketing firm because he has had enough of working for incompetent people (he is such a perfectionist and sub-par work drives him crazy). Sure, he works a lot, but at least he is proud of what he's doing. Sera has made a ton of friends in the neighborhood, and looks like she might be very good at sports, given her size.
J and I have been saving like good little bunnies and are about to close on our own garden duplex in a brownstone a few blocks from the park. Maybe some day, we can buy a whole house, but this place feels like home. 
I love this question!
*TTC since 10/11*
BFP: 9/30/12, EDD: 6/15/13
*~*Our miracle arrived on 6/13/13*~*
God willing we will have a second child and DH will be getting ready to get snipped so no more GP life for us!!!
We will be in our same house. Hopefully DH will have gotten a job as an assistant principal and I will be working on or just have finished a masters program in something that is still to be determined. I hope that at least one of us will be working in the school district that we work in so we have the same breaks as our kid(s).
I hope that our marriage has the same level of teamwork that it does now but that we are better about displaying affection, I want our children to grow up in a home where you can see the love.
Personally I hope that I have maintained some of my very close friendships and also branched out to meet new people as well.
I don't think it is negative to be realistic. I hope the optimistic path is what you are one.
In 5 years I hope we will have completed our family with a second child. Sadly in 5 years my Bella will probably be gone (she would be 13 which is really old for a great pyr). But hopefully I'll still have Beau and Frankie. Maybe DH will have been promoted and we will have relocated to Germany (I would really love to live overseas for awhile). If not, I hope we are both happy with our jobs and still fixing up our house (we have the basement and the whole second floor left to renovate!).
I hope that I will still have all my family with me, and I hope that I will have run at least one marathon or more.
BFP 5/2/11, missed m/c, D&C 6/13/11
BFP 12/8/11--Little Girl E Born 8/22/12
We will have completed/be in the process of completing our family with 3 kids, and I hope all of the cats are still with us. I will be a SAHM and DH will have gotten another promotion at work.
We'll be in the same house, unless we win the lottery. DH and I will be active volunteers at the animal shelter.
5 cats. 1 baby.
You've heard what I've done, not what I've been through.
If you were in my shoes, you'd fall the first step."
In 5 years . . . I don't see much changing and that's ok! I'll still be teaching. Maybe pregnant again/just had baby #2 (if we decide to do so.) Audrey will be 5 - in kindergarten, healthy, happy, and thriving. DH will still be teaching. We'll probably still be in our current home, which I'm totally ok with, but probably looking for something bigger, especially if #2 is on the way/here.
I said to DH last night, "I am very happy with this little life we have made." And it couldn't be further from the truth. I'm the most content and at peace as I've ever been in my whole life. I hope it stays that way.
GP buddy to blenderdance
In 5 years I hope that M is the big sister to 2 siblings. Hopefully we'll be living in our forever home in my hometown. DH will still be with the same company and I'll still be a SAHM. It might sound boring, but it's my dream life.
In 5 years, Lily will be in kindergarten, and hopefully we'll have another one around 2 or 3 years old and either a newborn or pregnant with #3. We'll be living outside of Boston, hopefully the South Shore, near our families, hopefully in a house that we've bought. Loki will be 7 and sleep all day and maybe we'll also have a dog (DH wants a Bernese, I want a schnauzer). DH will either be teaching after changing his career so we could move back to MA (haha) or he will be a director of operations at a television network. I will be running a very successful local photography business, shooting weddings once a month, plenty of family portraits during the week, and making time for my own projects as well. We will spend a lot of time as a family at the beach and going camping with the kids, doing day hikes and going for afternoon walks by the water.
A girl can dream, right?
my blog
Right now my 5 year plan includes moving to Kansas City in 2 years so my DH can move up in his company. Once we move to KC I plan to begin a PhD program in Counseling Psychology and possibly start teaching at a University. If I could teach part time or on the side that would be great because I'm not ready to give up practicing therapy, it's where I truly feel amazing about what I do and it's like I've found my niche. I'm hoping that our LO is happy and healthy and a big sister to a younger brother. If we happen to have another little girl then we may be working on a 3rd to see if we can get a boy in there. I'd love to see our marriage continue to grow and I think we have great potential as long as we can remember the big picture and not let things steer us off course. I also hope that my amazing furbaby is still doing great because that little fuzzball has gotten me through some rough times. While in KC I'd love to be able to afford and build our forever home.
In 5 years, I hope H is running his own successful practice, without having to work a full time job on the side. I hope we have 2 LOs, and Milo probably will have passed away, so we'll probably have another dog. We'll be in the process of moving to our forever home. I hope that I have a strong real estate/relocation business going.
H's business partner is looking to get out of his real estate/financial planning practice in about 5 years, so hopefully H has taken over that, with a new partner/me. If H could have at least a mildly successful tax practice, though, I'll be elated.
B Born 6.27.13
In 5 years I will have graduated with my master's degree and be working as a counselor somewhere - ideally in a school, and with the new incentives for more mental health professionals in schools due to all the recent shootings I'm hoping that there will actually be some openings (that kind of sounds bad for some reason). DH and I will have bought a house I hope, have taken some family vacations, and maybe we will be on our way to having a second kid.
Of course she can! And this sounds perfectly reasonable and lovely to me.
In 5 years:
I hope to have found a career and not just a job. But if it is just another job, I hope it is one that I feel I can grow into a career.
I hope that we have a toddler running around, maybe starting preschool. Maybe even have another on the way.
I hope that DH and I are still in love and satisfied in our 10 years of marriage.
I hope that we still have Dixie, but if not that we have found a great pet to keep Molly company and grow with our children.