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DSs (6&8) share a room now, they have since they were 1 & 3. We have 4 bedrooms, but it is much easier to have a toy room than 2 kid bedrooms with toys all over both. We really need a guestroom too, since we never live anywhere near family. We asked them last week if they would still like to share a room in our next house. They said yes! We never did the co-sleeping thing, but the youngest likes to get up early in the morning to climb in and cuddle with us.
I don't think I had my kids early or late. DH & I are a year & a half apart - we & I met at 14-15, started dating at 17-18, married on my 22nd birthday & had DS#1 about a month before I turned 26 & DS#2 when I was 27. It works out well for us since DH can retire from the military 3 months before our oldest starts HS. That means we won't have to move them during HS & may actually have the = of 2.5 incomes to pay for two kids in college at the same time! DH will need to go out and get a real job, I'm not going to let him reitre, retire when he is 42!
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Ours share out of necessity. But, I don't think they'd have it any other way - at least right now. When DS9 turns into a teen things may change.
Man, am I feeling like a late bloomer or something. All these folks who met their mate in their teens.
Met DH when I was 30. He was 25 - get 'em young, train 'em right. Besides, I think it's rather brilliant planning on my part - I'll never be a widow - according to the acctuarial tables we'll die at the same time.
Of course, he does like to tweak me about how we both graduated in the same year - me from high school, and him from 6th grade! Eeewwwww.
We did our Masters together and were randomly selected to be on the same project team. Yes, we did invite the professor to the wedding to "finish what he'd started". I understand we were a running joke in his classes for several years.
Got married 6 months after we'd met - hey, when it's a match, it's a match. Had the wedding 11 months after that. Yeah, weird - it was for a whole lot of unromantic reasons around who the military will and will not move. Managed to keep our marriage a secret from the family for several months. Why confuse the issue when we'd already annouced a wedding for 11 months later? But had to fess up when there was a big leak on DH's side - we were the first "official" function of a new chapliancy, so our marriage made it into the chaplain's weekly report, and it got rolled up into his superior's weekly, and actually managed to stay in the rollups for about 3 or 4 levels until basically the entire DoD knew. Military. Sheesh. They can't keep secrets.
Had the wedding over Memorial Day weekend, and baptised DS9 the same weekend a year later. The original plan was to have the two of them 3 years apart. But we were rebuilding a house at the time and it was a dumb time to have a baby. So, they're 4 years 5 months apart - and I'm glad we waited. I was - what? 37? When the youngest was born. I'm thinking that's about as late as you'd want - otherwise retirement and college start bumping into each other.
I was pretty neutral on the whole idea of kids. I had my dogs after all and they filled that need. But, I married a man who
needed to be a dad. So, we've got them. And I wouldn't trade them for anything. A total adventure.
And now, I really, really do need to stop goofing off and get back to developing those 4-5 year roadmaps.
But then I realized the guide also gave some very good (and important) driving tips and assistance...like showing what a multi-lane, multi-light intersection looks like!
