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sick_mama17

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Just for fun! If you weren't a parent yet.... Posted: 02-17-08 02:58am


what would you be doing? / what would your life be like..do you think? My sister asked me this, I thought it was an interesting question, makes you think.

pixma

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Posted: 02-17-08 06:56am


mine is quite simple....still on the farm and probably working split shifts as a chef!!like it had been for the last 6 years!! BORING!!! I'm soo glad that i feel pregnant when i did!! Stephen and i needed a change in our lives and i cant think of a better way than to start a family!!

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Posted: 02-17-08 07:42am


I would probably be working full time & drinking/smoking weed every chance I got. My partying was getting to be a little much before I got pregnant, I always say if I didn't end up knocked up I'd probably be in rehab. Sad but true

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Posted: 02-17-08 08:46am


I really can't picture myself without my kids...

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Posted: 02-17-08 09:11am

OctoberBaby06 wrote:

I would probably be working full time & drinking/smoking weed every chance I got. My partying was getting to be a little much before I got pregnant, I always say if I didn't end up knocked up I'd probably be in rehab. Sad but true Sad

That is sad. Why do you think that would be the case?

I mean, what was it about your environment that led to that kind of lifestyle?

OctoberBaby06

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Posted: 02-17-08 10:07am

futureshock wrote:

OctoberBaby06 wrote:

That is sad. Why do you think that would be the case?

I mean, what was it about your environment that led to that kind of lifestyle?

Partying was just something I was really into back then, now I look back & wonder how the heck I did it so often. Nothing about the environment though, other than living in a little hick town with nothing else to do lol..

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Posted: 02-17-08 10:27am


I would be living the same life, just minus Ava. We'd probably be traveling. That's the only thing I could see that would change. We had to put our plans of going to Las Vegas, Washington D.C., Tahiti, and another cruise on hold, but we will resume once the kids are older. I'd still be teaching and living here. OH, I'd be sleeping later than 6:30 in the morning!

musikmaker

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Posted: 02-17-08 10:30am


I would be working and driving myself insane. The only reason I slowed down was because I knew that I wasn't taking care of myself well enough.

OctoberBaby06

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Posted: 02-17-08 10:47am


Oh yeah, & I'd be sleeping a little more!

ladylee70

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Posted: 02-17-08 11:30am


I would probably have a PhD. I am a few years shy of one. I would be working my butt off even more trying to pay off those darn school debts. I would also probably spend my summers working in orphanages or some humanitarian thing. I am SO GLAD I had kids. Children made me reevaluate what's truly important to me and helped me to slow down.

Verizon-y

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Posted: 02-17-08 15:44pm

OctoberBaby06 wrote:

futureshock wrote:

OctoberBaby06 wrote:

That is sad. Why do you think that would be the case?

I mean, what was it about your environment that led to that kind of lifestyle?

I grew up in a relatively small and boring town, too.

What about college? Weren't any of the other kids growing up there going to college?

Ayrshire-lass

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Posted: 02-17-08 16:27pm


to the comment above. to be honest if i never had scott i would off been a suvere party animal. my liver and kidnys would be on there way to dying just now. and i went to college! college was the reason id ever taken drugs of went to wild partys.

onmyway_0x

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Posted: 02-17-08 16:46pm


Ha! Bella saved my life. I was wild , into some pretty bad stuff and would've most likely gotten into more just because of all the terrible things my ex was into. I drank , I smoked I partied and I did hard drugs... Keeping the baby was probably the most unreasonable decision for me to make at that time just because of my lifestyle , but somehow I knew "this was it" and it was. If it weren't for her he probably would've killed me or I would have od'd or I'd just be a trainwreck right now... But now I work full time I'm happy , I'm happy and the only thing I rely on to make me feel better about just everything is my girl! So when I say she saved my life, I mean that literally <3

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Posted: 02-17-08 16:50pm


i'd be finished college this year and starting work in childcare. but i don't think i'd be with bobby and happily settled. i'm glad i had william. it gave me a sense of reality and in some way made me and bobby closer as a couple who knows, i might be still struggling with my depression and eating disorder. having wiliam made me more strong as a person and i know who i am now and i know what i want

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Posted: 02-17-08 17:01pm


if i wasnt a mommy, i would probably have moved back to wisconsin working part time while going to uwwc (the local college where i use to live) and (this is gonna sound bad but) i most likely wouldnt be married

Ayrshire-lass

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Posted: 02-17-08 17:10pm


to be honest i wud of found it sooooo hard to deal with scotts death if i wasnt pregnent. i would of lost my job and sat in the house. not leaving my room in a terible state. crying all the time. but i know i have the only part of scott left. and i see it ALOT in Little scott

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Posted: 02-17-08 17:15pm


If we didnt have any kids we wouldprobably still in nc, i would be looking for a job, i got "fired" before i found out i was pregnant with joseph, i was able to get unemplyment though but once i found out i was pregnant i went to fla. but we wouldbt in germany either, he wouldnt have joined the army if we didnt have kids, prob still be living at his parents or something, smoking weed and drinking, i do not know ho wi drank so much like i did back then like almost everyday we were crazy drunk it was insane, i was into my eating disorder back then too and cutting, iw ould be one messed up person if i didnt have kids, i prob would be soooooooo skinny and sick, getting pregnant was the best thing that happened to me ,im now a healthier happier person and i love my kids with everything just the little things they do make me happy and im proud to be there mom, i think my life would really suck if i didnt have kids right now id prob be in an eating disorder treatment center, i was really messed up back then but i am doing sooooo much better right now and i realize when i need help and get it because of my kids iw anna be there to care for them and watch them grow up and not make the same mistakes i did.

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Posted: 02-17-08 18:00pm


i'd prolly be working, moved out with some friends (couldnt stand my oldest brother) and maybe going to college

Sammy001

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Posted: 02-17-08 18:58pm


I can't see myself without kids...it was "time " for us. There are alot of places I want to see though..I may have travelled a bit. I want to go to Australia, hawaii..

tdr

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Posted: 02-17-08 21:38pm

futureshock wrote:

OctoberBaby06 wrote:

futureshock wrote:

OctoberBaby06 wrote:

That is sad. Why do you think that would be the case?

I mean, what was it about your environment that led to that kind of lifestyle?

I grew up in a relatively small and boring town, too.

What about college? Weren't any of the other kids growing up there going to college?

Future (what is your name, anyway?), you don't know small town until you've been up where Michelle is. I can vouch for her since we have a cabin within a half hour of her house.
There is NOTHING to do there. NOTHING. On our property, we have a little quarry thing, and every weekend we find it littered with used condoms, empty beer cans, and a sometimes still-smoldering bonfire. There is NOTHING to do there. At all.
The towns (and I am using Laceyville as an example here) can consist of one main street, and that's it. The nearest entertainment is 45 minutes to an hour away, in Towanda, the seat of Bradford County. In Towanda, there's a movie theater.
I'm not trying to say that doing weed and partying 24/7 is the best choice, but when you're in upstate, mountainous, rural Pennsylvania, it's truly the most interesting.