here is an interesting question

cameragirl21 wrote: ok, so i'm just poll happy today, i'm trying to put off the many things i have to do today and i'm stalling a bit but i think this is an interesting question.
feel free to comment...or not.

cameragirl21 replied: sorry, i forgot to add the obvious option--i'd have done it the exact same way as i did.

Crystalina replied: I would do it the same. I was freaking about not having kids earlier (like we wanted) and then 10 yrs into it we gave up and Ta-Da! baby on the way. Everything happens for a reason in my eyes and it happend the way it was supposed to. I'm more patient and less busy then I used to be. Also dh and I were able to establish ourselves financially.

mummy2girls replied: mine isnt up there but if i could go back I would of waited till i was married before i had kids. I dont regret thenm dont get me wrong but ive been through so much finacial stress and to do it all by myself was really hard... to be a mom and a dad...

coasterqueen replied: I like the age I had my kids. Dh and I had many years alone to just focus on our marriage, which I think everyone should have. Granted it made it hard to transition from alone time to having kids, but we've done well. I want to be able to play with my grandchildren as well so I wanted to have them young enough to do so. I also think, for me, waiting til I did to have kids let me mature more and become more financially stable to provide everything for them.

cameragirl21 replied:
it's funny you should say that, Shelly, because i have always thought of you as the perfect example of a successful single parent and to be fair, you make it look like it's relatively easy. before i "met" you (for lack of a better term) i thought of the complexity and complications of being a single parent to be much higher than the way i see them now...you have definitely influenced my opinion to a great degree so it strikes me as interesting that you in fact, wish you had been married.
it's amazing how different things look when you're on the outside viewing a situation.

sparkys2boys replied: I would keep it the same as it is!!!

gr33n3y3z replied: wouldnt change a thing

JadensMama05 replied: Well.. I'm a selfish one. Maybe that's cuz I'm 22 and haven't experienced very much life at all...

Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Ditto.

luvmykids replied: I answered that I would have had them younger but not so I'd have more energy, just so I'd be as young as all the other moms around me seem to be and because I wish I wasn't going to be in my late fifties or early sixties when I have grandkids. I forget I'm not their age because I feel like I'm still 25 only a little more mellow and a little wiser. But then when we're all talking they reference something from high school or whatever that makes my age sink in and I realize I'm a lot older than I think I am

BUT in hindsight I think I'm a better mom now than I would have been then so in that sense I wouldn't do it any differently. (That only applies to myself, I'm not implying that twenty somethings aren't good moms )

MomToJade&Jordan replied: Even with what happened with my marriage I would have done it all the same.

Mommy2BAK replied: I wouldn't change a thing!

Nina J replied: I'd do it all the same, my kids were born at the right time in my life, I could'nt imagine having my little cuppy cakes earlier or later, they were born at the right time.