To Have or To Not Have Kids

[jrsygal37]

There is really never a right time. Society will alway have problems, finances may not always be right but once your child comes it all seems to work out. Hubby and I adopted our two boys. When we were given the opportunity to adopt our first my husband asked me "Do you want the house first or the baby first." Adoption was expensive and our savings for our home was used to bring out baby home all $50,000 of it. Am I sorry. NEVER. We lived in an apartment / more like a condo with our son and guess what two years later we brough our second son home and still no home. We made do with the room we had and about a year after that we bought our home. We are living in it now for the past almost 13 years. My little babies are now not babies anymore. My oldest is going to be 15 yrs. old and my youngest turned 12 this past April. Our economy is terrible, gas is high, food is high, and my teen son's wardrobe is leaving me broke but I would not change any of it. In fact I look back and wish they were still young, wish I could have had just one more baby. It wasn't in the cards. Don't wait until the world is better. Sadly it won't happen. Don't wait for a better economy. There will always be problems. Go with your heart and if your heart is ready for a baby then the time is right. If you aren't ready yourself then that's a different story. Elaine