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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Free as a BIRD!  A frickin' BIRD, I TELL YOU!  Bye bye kiddies see you at Thanksgiving.  Life is great.[/quote]

I'm surprised by that sentiment. Is that because having kids when young and unsettled and raising them during the difficult career years was so tough that your primarily feeling of seeing them go is relief?[/quote]

Well no, it's because raising teenagers can be stressful, and we have three, and they've been home during the pandemic when they would rather be at college and with their friends.  So it's been a tough year of parenting and having a full house when I wasn't expecting it.   They very much want to go back to college and I very much want them to go for their sakes as well as mine.

The time when they were young wasn't so bad.  I was SAHM for the earliest years (daycare for a toddler and surprise twins being so expensive), then got back into my career in a gradual way.  It definitely helps that I picked a family-friendly job.  Financially we've never been wealthy, especially with unexpected twins, but I'm good with budgets and have modest tastes anyway, and we have the next 20 years of both of our careers to pay for college and save for retirement.  [/quote]

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