Mama Knows Best

Growing up, I never wanted to have children. Insane, isn’t it? How quickly your mind can change. After my first miscarriage, I can remember telling the husband that I did want children after all. We don’t know how we would have managed financially with the first baby, as the beginning of our marriage brought chaos as far as the eye could see. I had no idea I was pregnant, until the miscarriage took place. In an instant, I feel sadness and bitterness towards the situation. I now look back and realize that God was watching over us, knowing all too well that our situation in the beginning would not have been a great time to bring a baby into the world.

And now that I have my two beautiful babes, I want nothing more than to give them the world. I want to go away on the weekends to campgrounds, parks or even zoos. I want to purchase an rv when we can afford one, just so that we can travel with our children. Right now, we are starting out small with camping in the pop-up in local area campgrounds, but this winter we have big plans. We will be flying to Florida to visit my grandparents, take in a little bit of Disney and some of the other attractions Florida has to offer.

I have decided that this crappy economy is not going to keep me from taking my children on vacations. We will make it a yearly thing to take our children on at least one “real” vacation every year, whether it be to Florida to visit family or someplace totally different. I want them to do things I never did as a child and give them the experience I never had.