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[cyberdeb]

I am 46, married at 19 (too young and naive), had first child at 20 and 2nd at 25, divorced by 27 and very, very happily remarried at 30 to dh who is now 47. Had our daughter at 30. Only one at home now, 15 almost 16 year old teenage girl.

 

[ram101]

I am 38, DW is 40. When we met she already had 2 girls DD20 and DD17. They were 6 and 3 when we met. Since their father is a dead beat and in prison they never had a father other then me.
We had the DS at 27/29, DD8 at 29/31 and the twin DD4 at 33/35.
We used to kid about having 12 ....Wow there is nooooo way!! 6 was Eenough!

DD20 is in her 2nd year of college (Deans list x2 ) and Our Disney vacation fund this year went to pay for DD17's trip to France with school . (Dont know if I should be happy for her or mad at her for taking the mouse away from us!!!)


Momoffive... I don't know how you survived with quads. Its funny how people always complain about how tough a time they had with one. The twins were and are a handful. They seem to feed off each other and have always worked as a team to get into things. One will distract while the other gets into something!! I can't imagine 4 at once!!

 

[RvUsa]

Ok, I am 39 going on 100, my Dw Erica is 32 and our son Matt is 5 going on 18. We got married in 99 and had Matt in 02. I knew Erica's family and her mom long before I knew her. She was away at school, when a friend from HS started dating her cousin, and their family kinda adopted us. Now my friend and her cousin are married, (he is the CM we visited in Fl) and they have a son 2 months older than Matt.

 

[drafthorsecrazy]

I'm 49 and holding on to the slippery slope of the 40's with my fingernails firmly attached to anything I can grip. My DH is 59. We met when I was in high school and a GF of mine was babysitting his children from his first marriage. We were married when I was 18. Everyone thought I was marrying him for his money.....so for years I joked and told people that we couldn't get divorced yet because he wasn't rich enough for me to "take him for everything he had". Now, after almost 31 yrs. he is semi-retired I tell everyone I missed his peak and we are stuck with each other for life. My husband has 2 sons from his first marriage, 38, & 36. You'll notice there is only a 11 & 13 yr difference in their ages and mine---DH claims it was like raising 3 kids . I know I felt like we grew up together over the yrs. When I was 21, we had my one and only child.....another son. I had a houseful of male testosterone!! To compound that, when my step sons had children, they each had a son. Last year, my son's wife gave birth to a baby GIRL!!!! Now after years and years of buying boy clothes and toys I can finally buy things pink and frilly. I am currently babysitting, and I have been for 3 days straight now and I can say I am TOTALLY exhausted and I'm looking forward to sending the little darling home this evening. My hat goes off to any woman taking on parenting during their 40's.

 

[stacktester]

Im 39, Gina is 37(but still gets carded when she buys alcohol or my cigs)and is a much prettier lady than I deserve. We've been married for 18 years, so it goes without saying that she has the patience of a saint for dealing with me and all the baggage that comes with me. In all reality, I AM MY WIFES 1ST CHILD!!! And she's raised me well.
We had our 1st daughter Laci, 4 months after our wedding. Everyone was sure we'd never last a year and were only getting married because she was pregnant....gee, I hope they're wrong!!!
Had our 2nd daughter Misti, 18 months later....she'll be 17 next month and Im considering putting her up for adoption she's a tough pill to swallow, but only because she's as smart-a$$ and stuborn as dear old dad!
Thought we were finished with two...avg American family with 2.3 children, that worked for us....but that .3 wasn't finished yet, and 11 yrs ago we had daughter #3, Tori..the only one who has successfully mastered the art of Daddy Manipulation....spitting image of her Mother, inside and out(and concieved on Disney property)!
Ok, 3 kids, all girls...we better stop here, Im getting old and tired...but apparently NOT THAT TIRED!!!! I shoulda just went to sleep that night!!!!
Here's daughter #4, Kenzi......this child is from another planet!! Im not sure what color the sky is in her world...but the only reason I know she wasnt switched at birth is because of her love of music....5 years old and knows all the words to every early Madonna song, and (I quote) "doesnt really like Madonna's new stuff" (Madonna hasnt put out any "new stuff" since Kenzi was an infant!!!) Of coarse Britney Spears and Hannah Montanna run a tight race with her as well.

My wife LOVED being pregnant.....she'd have another one in a New York second if there were no complications with our last two. But, as it is...we actually ARE finally done.....and Laci just gave us the coolest grandson, Cayden, 9 months ago. Shes a very young (but surprisingly patient) mother (18 yrs old) and of coarse we have ALOT of responsibility in teaching her to be a good parent(good by OUR definition, and we dont really care about anyone elses definition), so although Gina didnt get to be pregnant again...she does play a vital part as MeeMee while Laci is finishing her graduating year of High School.

There it is....my life in a nutshell......probably not the roads everyone would have chosen, and definately not an easy road.....but I have nothing to hide from the world. And My wife and I, who "probably wont even make it through the first year together"....have grown old,....and pretty darn happy, together. We're living our own Happily Ever After.

My DD who is 10 may be going to adoption block if she doesn't quit giving daddy a hard time. I told my mom yesterday I'm thinking of running away and she looks at me and says first of all, you're getting paid back for all you did to me, second of all you ain't seen nothin yet. Wait til she get's 12 or 13.

 

[DznyRulz]

... you ain't seen nothin yet. Wait til she get's 12 or 13.

Then there's 14, 15, 16, 17 .... I don't know if it will ever end.

 

[Memph1s]

Me DH 52 DW 47 DD 14 3/4 almost 14 7/8

 

[Luv2Camp]

I'm 40 (hanging on to that for another month!) and my DH is 43. We have two kids - DS is getting ready to turn 21 and our DD is 15 going on 21. Our "babies" are the three dachsunds......They've been so much easier to raise!

 

[dean_and_monica]

dean and monica I have a close friend that's been trying to have children for as long as I can remember, she just turned 40 and on her birthday last tuesday delivered a healthy baby boy. She has had at least two miscarriages that I personally can recall...I guess the time was right because she just poof got pregnant and thus the story..hehe

Thanks for the encouragement! Actually a lot of the stories on here have given me a boost! You never know what could happen. I was hoping for a little Mouse Magic in May.

 

[chief19spixi]

ahhh here were go!!

me 26 well at least until March 18th LOL
dh 37
DD 8
DD 5
DS 6
Our wuppy dog - 8

 

[drafthorsecrazy]

Our wuppy dog - 8

Hey! Thats what we call one of our dogs! When she was a puppy, that turned into wuppy and now that she's an old dog we just call her The Wup.

 

[chief19spixi]

Hey! Thats what we call one of our dogs! When she was a puppy, that turned into wuppy and now that she's an old dog we just call her The Wup.

LOL

 

[lisa8200]

I'm ( Mike ) 38, DW Lisa is 45. We haven't figured out it she robbed the cradle or I have a thing for cougars . Lisa has a DD Landon from her previous marriage but I consider her mine. We have been together for about 5-6 years..Over the last couple of months Lisa keeps saying things like " having a baby is the only thing we have't done " or a baby will be on TV and she'll say " aawww don't you want one ". Now, it's not that I'm against it but, Lisa will be on medicare before a new one will get out of high school, or college. I've had a few of the joys that Landon's birth Dad can't be bothered with like teaching her to ride a bike etc. so I don't feel like I'm missing out.

 

[AuburnJen92]

i just turned 38 and DH is 35 (about to be 36)

we waited to have kids so we could do things together, been together 17 years and married 12...DS is 4

i wouldn't trade what we did for anything

 

[lizardqueen]

I'm 31 and DH is 32. No bio kids, but we are foster parents, so who knows how old we will be when we decide enough is enough! We would like to adopt a couple though and hope to be able to do that in the next year or so.

 

[Katie Dawn]

Okay, so I lurk on here alot (well, it's not so much that I'm lurking, but I haven't been to the Fort yet so I don't have that much to contribute) but here goes:

I'm 29, DH is 35. We got married when I was 21. As you can see from my siggie we are working on becoming parents. I was really sad to cancel our "Dream Vacation" to FW last fall but knew it was the sensible decision to save it in case we needed it for fertility treatments. And in retrospect I'm glad we did! Had a minor surgery related to it all last month and spent our trip money (plus some) just on that! I'm hopeful, and if it doesn't happen then we'll definitely adopt (in fact, even if it does happen I think there's a good chance we'll adopt too). The great news is that I help first time parents for a living and I teach Infant Care Classes and Infant CPR/Safety Classes part-time -- so once we have our little one hopefully we'll be somewhat prepared (in actuality all that knowledge will probably fly out of my brain the moment our baby is put in our arms, but I can hope can't I?)

I just want to thank you guys for being here on the boards. I check in every so often and find that I get to take a "mini vacation in my mind" to the Fort and WDW by reading all about other people's plans, other people's trip reports, etc. Ya'll are lots of fun!

 

[auntie]

Seems we are quite the FW family...wide range of ages... Some started families early..some later..some still waiting..and some smart ones who knew better! Some with families of the four legged variety(really smart!) It's amazing how an interest in Disney and FW has brought us all together!





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[DisCamper]

i'm 40 cheryl 28 rudy the dog is 5 1/2. cheryl and i been together for 8 years.

 

[terri01p]

Ok I guess my turn :

My family you could say we have grown up together and I wouldn't change a thing ( well maybe one or two ) but after 27 yrs my dh still loves me ( or pretends to ) and my children love us, so somewhere along the line we did something right.

 

[LarryJ]

Well you all can figure it out, but in a couple of months the DW and I will celebrate our 38th anniversary and we have two sons who this year will be 35 and 30. Early next year we will celebrate having been together for 40 years ... how time flies when you're having fun.

Larry