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Do you have a family plan? Or not…

Four years ago I told my husband we were ready for children. He was skeptical or better said he thought he was too young… Me on the other hand thought we were ready. I was 24 years old, I had a good job, we just put our lives together after Hurricane Katrina destroyed it, and though life was giving me an open invitation to change our routines and directions. Call it Biological Clock if you want to… I was ready. I quit smoking cold turkey and started hitting the gym regularly. We started trying a few months later and got pregnant 8 months after trying, by this time my husband was as much on it as I was and our lives had already started to transform into a more easy going-relax-ready-to-be-parents life. We truly loved it.Matthew (our son) came to this world as the final piece we were looking for to complete our personal puzzle. He was totally planned. He is now two years old and people constantly ask us when will we give him the sibling… and truth is we are still waiting for the right time to try again. I think next year sometime after March will be good as I will have over one year with the new company I am working for, I will be getting close to 30 and my husband will be 37 and Matthew will be 3 by the time the new one comes along and the economy should be picking up. That is our plan. Our planned life and the way I like it. I need to see it and be sure we can handle it (emotionally, financially, physically etc) it’s the way we are.

Wondering did you had a plan with your kids (ages in between the children, how you and husband (or significant other will do with work –financially-, having a target age in which you wanted to have your kids) or you just toss the birth control out one day and decided the how’s? will be answer as you make it along the way…