Is leaving the right thing to do? (Hoboken, Hopatcong: incomes, living in)

[nic529]

Awww Sorry to hear you think of children that way. The best part of my day is seeing my kids....even when they are rotten!

[TheEmissary]

Originally Posted by nic529

Awww Sorry to hear you think of children that way. The best part of my day is seeing my kids....even when they are rotten!

Spoken like a true Mommy! Athough there are some days in the lives of parents that would justify LJeen to react that way!

[nic529]

Oh absolutely! We always say - If we'd of had my son first we'd of never had my daughter lol

Originally Posted by TheEmissary

Spoken like a true Mommy! Athough there are some days in the lives of parents that would justify LJeen to react that way!

[colleeng47]

Originally Posted by TheEmissary

Manufactured homes can be very high quality. They've come a long way in the last 30 years. One was built a couple of blocks away from me in NJ and it was beautiful! It was made from 4 big subassembies. IMO stands for In My Opinion.

I did a lot of research on this when we started thinking about Oklahoma. A manufactured home is what used to be known as a "mobile home". They can be fixed permanently to land, or put into a "mobile home park". They have come a long way and some of them are very spacious and elegant looking. I, however, would not risk one in Oklahoma (tornadoes). On the other hand, a modular home is a regular house, but it's built in a factory, driven in pieces to the land where it will be erected and then set on a foundation (basement) and finished there. When it is finished, there is no way (for an amateur, anyway) to tell that it hadn't been built right there on site.

[LJeen]

Originally Posted by nic529

Awww Sorry to hear you think of children that way. The best part of my day is seeing my kids....even when they are rotten!

Fine for you. I would throw myself out of a window if I had to feed and dress kids in the morning before going to work and needing a babysitter which there would be no way I could afford and come home to cook and bath and God knows what else. The best part of my day is when I see my two dogs who will not turn into brats and get pregnant, take drugs and stick me in a nursing home. The suck the life out of you and you can kiss money goodbye.

[nic529]

Originally Posted by LJeen

Fine for you. I would throw myself out of a window if I had to feed and dress kids in the morning before going to work and needing a babysitter which there would be no way I could afford and come home to cook and bath and God knows what else. The best part of my day is when I see my two dogs who will not turn into brats and get pregnant, take drugs and stick me in a nursing home. The suck the life out of you and you can kiss money goodbye.

But they are so cute

[LJeen]

Originally Posted by nic529

But they are so cute

LOL for a little while at least.

[neekah18]

Originally Posted by LJeen

Fine for you. I would throw myself out of a window if I had to feed and dress kids in the morning before going to work and needing a babysitter which there would be no way I could afford and come home to cook and bath and God knows what else. The best part of my day is when I see my two dogs who will not turn into brats and get pregnant, take drugs and stick me in a nursing home. The suck the life out of you and you can kiss money goodbye.

Wow I hope that is not how my mom feels about me.

Honestly I keep going back and forth with my boyfriend whether we will have children after we get married. He wants them but every time I hear one cry in my mom's daycare I cringe. The worse sound is a crying baby.

But they are so adorable once they shut up

[nic529]

Originally Posted by neekah18

Wow I hope that is not how my mom feels about me.

Honestly I keep going back and forth with my boyfriend whether we will have children after we get married. He wants them but every time I hear one cry in my mom's daycare I cringe. The worse sound is a crying baby.

But they are so adorable once they shut up

Its different when its your own. And once you have children you suddenly have this epiphany about others too. good luck

PS...they're really sweet when they sleep!

[imperieux]

I had one child and said I was DONE.

But then the choice was taken away from me (cancer) and my biological clock started ticking. Isn't that always the way? What a cruel joke!

Once I'm completely well we may foster a child here in SC. We are seriously considering it. Yes, children can be terrors and they are A LOT of work and money. But raising a child and helping them along their way into adulthood has fulfilled me in a way that nothing else in the world ever could.

My point is, you never know. Some women never want children and then later on they find themselves wanting it badly. So many women are waiting to start families these days because you can easily have a child into your 40s.

Although I don't think LJeen is going to change her mind. At least not anytime soon.