52 Weeks of Blogging with a purpose: Week 3 - My Life 5 Years From Now

 Thanks to From Mrs to Mama for this idea....and to In This Crazy Life and God Will Fill This Nest for keeping me inspired to keep up with this!

My Life 5 Years From Now...

This is the kind of thing they ask you on a job interview that I've always struggled with, not because I don't have a plan, its just very flexible, and sometimes its nice not knowing where your life is going.

In 5 years, M and I will have just celebrated our 9th wedding anniversary. Which is crazy to think about, as I can't believe its already been 4 years, then again I can't really remember what life is like without him either.

C will be turning 7, which means he will either be entering first or second grade (we haven't decided if he should oldest or youngest in his class.)  Bean will be turning 5!  Which is hard to think about when little dude still has two months until birth.  He'll be in preschool, and we'll be facing the same decision about when to start Kindergarten.

I'll be in my mid-thirties, very weird, and maybe by then I will be able to balance it all to do what I really want to do.  I hope to have a fair share of volunteer activities and be a stay-at-home mom.  I think we will be in the same house, since we bought this one with the intention that we could spend the rest of our life in it.  There are two reasons I would consider moving, 1.)Obviously if M was to get a job in another city, 2.) to move to up in the world, assuming M starts making a lot more money (I'm talking about a community where our house would cost easily 3 times as much as our current) and we could find a house with a bit more space (which more money doesn't necessarily mean)).  This is also around the time that we would like to think about baby #3, M and I both agree that we would love to have more kids, but we need a bit of a break, and I am not a mom who would choose to do 3 under 5, I just feel completely overwhelmed by the idea (those of you who are, I give a ton of credit, since I know its not something I could handle.)  Also since I am likely to have a repeat c-section with Bean, I really want to give my body a long period of time to heal.  

In an ideal world, I would love to think we will have all of our student loans paid off in 5 years, but I just don't know how realistic that is.  We're working on getting about 8 small one paid off this year, but the rest are very large and I'm just not sure how feasible that it.

I'll also be driving a car with a third row by this point (but not a mini-van, I refuse to drive one!)  Right now we have a wagon/crossover and it works now, but I know we'll want a third row if another baby k joins us, and I don't know how well these things grow with the family.  M keeps pushing the mini-van idea, but I told him if he wants one, he can drive it.

Also in 5 years I could be teaching my little brother how to drive, who was born the same week I failed my first driving test.  My youngest sister will be graduating from college, and hopefully one of my siblings or M's will make me an Aunt (I can't wait to be an Aunt, you get to do all the cool stuff of being a mom, with being able to hand the baby back when they get cranky!)