Sunday, 30 October 2011

20 weeks, 20 months, 20 years: Forward Planning

Jax over at Making It Up wrote about what she would like her life to be like in 20 weeks, 20 months and 20 years and asked if others fancied having a go. Well I love to imagine these kinds of things, Im a planning addict did you know? So I thought I'd have a go.
In twenty weeks Lucas will be around 8 months old. I cant imagine it really, but then I never really imagined having a fifth child to start with so I have no idea what it will be like. He'll be crawling I imagine, or moving in some way or another. I really really really want to still be breastfeeding at this stage. It means a lot to me for lots of reasons although my sanity is taking a battering over it. We'll see. By then I am hoping to have a firmer grip on both the house work and home education which had disintegrated so very badly since Lucas was born. I'd like Seb to be reading by then, not sure how feasible that is. And DH will have gotten through his first winter of being self employed, maybe with work to see him through but if not he will be getting reading to start looking for more work by then. I don't think much else would have changed.
In twenty months I'd ideally not want to be living here, but again I don't know how realistic that is. Ideally, we'd need to be looking to upgrade to accommodate us all as this house is not quite big enough given the differing ages of the children. Nathan will be finished with college by then, and Abi will be half way through her chosen college course. Id imagine Emma will be starting exams or courses of one kind or another. Id like to think Seb will definitely be reading by then, and hopefully learning lots and enjoying being a boy. I will of course have Lucas as a toddler, and I want to be enjoying lots of days out to interesting groups and places. I am sure if Seb is still into all his boy stuff we can have fun getting into fire making, den building and other such things. Although I'll still have another 14ish (eek!) years home edding left in me, I would like to be thinking about a way of making money/working some how at that point. My interests and ideas have changed greatly over time and I imagine myself working with HE'ers who want to talk about curriculums,or new HE'ers who need support or working with mums who need support with breastfeeding not necessarily professionally but more in a friendly 'been there, done that' kind of way. DH will hopefully have his business thriving by then, earning enough money to see us through as we'll lose tax credits and child benefits from the oldest two by then.
In twenty years... now that's a hard one isn't it. 3 fifths of my children will be independent and living their own lives by then and even the other two will be in university or in their chosen career Id hope. Id like to see them happy and content in whatever they are doing. Id like to finally have my OU degree by then and to be working in a career I like, not just doing it to pay bills. I want to have learnt to knit and crochet, to sew and do quilting. I imagine we'll be looking to downgrade our living accommodation by then and Id like somewhere with an easy-maintain garden with fruit trees and an allotment bed. Jax mentioned solar panels and I'd like that too. DH would hopefully have more time and even be passing his business on to one of the kids if they want that. Maybe we'd have time to travel and just be.

So there you have it. A few things to think about and work on, a lot of dreams and ideas I wonder if I'll look back and have achieved them or whether they'll have changed by then. Time will tell.

3 comments:

  1. Thank you for giving it a try, fascinating to read someone else's take on it :-)

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  2. Very thought provoking reads (both yours and the original.) However, with life as it is at the moment, I've decided to worry about the next twenty minutes instead and let the rest take care of itself. Which, for a lifelong planner, is a massive challenge!

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  3. Thanks ladies.
    Yes Anne, I am inclined to agree with you. My next blogpost(yet to be completed due to a certain little man) is far less thought provoking or intelligent ;o)

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