I will be 33, DD will be almost 6. We will hopefully have maybe a 4 and a 2 year old as well.
My hope for 5 years from now is that DH's business is flourishing, giving me more time at home. I hope to settle into a routine of having multiple kids - sometimes I find this is a struggle with just 1 kid. Our basement will be finished, and hopefully in 5 year our house will be pretty much where we want it to be as far as major projects. I'd also love to be able to blog more and create more income from it.
We'll be 35. I'll have a successful CPA practice, where I work no more than 50 hours a week during tax season and more like 25 the rest of the year. H will be CFO at his company. We'll have a 3 (?) year old and maybe I'll be pregnant with #2. We'll travel a few times a year, and life will be good!
Post by teengirlsquad on Mar 4, 2015 10:51:22 GMT -5
In 5 years I will have finished grad school and hopefully be teaching. I should also be close to having paid off my students loans.
And I hope and pray that I am married in 5 years. I will be in my early 30s by then and I would really like to have gotten married or at least be close.
Post by explorer2001 on Mar 4, 2015 14:37:03 GMT -5
Career: have made equity at my firm, still loving what I do, continuing to help set standards in my field, presenting at conferences and writing articles, get a solid mentoring program established, become a recognized leader
Volunteer: continue to find a way to meaningfully contribute to my community, find the courage to dispell stereotypes about survivors of DV and work on tough issues (ex volunteering at the food bank is good, but easier for me than working to address gender equality, violence against women, plus I have unique experience that allows me to address DV that most people don't have, etc).
Health: continuing to work to improve my health mentally, emotionally, and physically, have learned to manage the chronic disease I was diagnosed with in January, make peace with my body and avoid additional significant injury/loss of function
Relationships/family: in a long term committed relationship or married to a real partner who loves, respects, and supports me in all aspects of my life. 1-2 kids or plans for kids. Make peace with my parents' limitations and determine the boundaries for a healthy containing relationship. Support my parents in any growth they are capable of including therapy. Make peace with cutting my brother out of my life for my own safety. Continuing to maintain and build new friendships.
In five years I will hopefully be transitioning DS1 to private school and DS2 to kindergarten. Our house projects will hopefully be almost done (planning on redoing kitchen by then). I am hoping to have reached the next level at my job. Maybe having slept through the night at least once?
Spending a lot less time working/commuting (maybe none?). Have 2-3 kids who are happy, healthy, and thriving. Maintain/strengthen my loving, equitable marriage. Have more and stronger relationships with people I adore. Is this vague enough? Haha. Basically I just want to be focusing my time and energy on the things that really matter to me - the people in my life. And I want everyone else in my life to be happy, too!
I'll be 35 and DH will be 39. I hope he'll be earning equal to or more than what I make so that I won't have to stress about money so much, and can work fewer billable hours and 5 days a week instead of every day. I hope we will have done 1-2 of our big deal trips (Galapagos? Europe?). I hope our retirement savings is more than double what it is today.
I hope everyone is healthy. Us, family, friends, pets. Definitely this above everything else.
Post by whereintheworld on Mar 4, 2015 20:05:07 GMT -5
At least one promotion. My kids will be 10, 8.5 and 7. I hope to be doing some travel as a family at that point. In a bigger house and with a new car (goals we are saving/planning for now). Regularly going out with just my husband and with girlfriends, hope to have more of a social life independent of the kids at that point.
Post by wanderlustmom on Mar 4, 2015 21:49:22 GMT -5
I will be 45,married 17 years with two teenagers. Just want all of us happy and healthy. I would also love lots of trips and experiences with friends and family. And I want to stay a healthy weight and continue running and barre classes. And the same career. I am so generic
Post by hopenotlost on Mar 4, 2015 22:19:57 GMT -5
Late to the game as always!
In 5 years, I see myself with my RN license, working in the mental health unit at our local hospital. I will have a 13 year old (W.T.F.), an 11 year old, and a 7 year old. DH and I will have bought a house, hopefully my SLs will be 100% paid off and we will be making a bigger dent in his. DH will be a juvenile correction officer. Hopefully I will be 14 lbs lighter lol.
I will be 38!!! I will have a 12 year old, 10 year old, 7 year old, 5 year old and hopefully 1-2 more kids. We are looking for a new house so I hope that we find one and have it done to suit our needs.
I love to be working part-time at least, and I hope to have a garden (to offset some of the food all of these kids eat). DH and I will celebrate our 10th anniversary in 3 years and it would be nice to go on a solo vacation (just us) possibly internationally.
We have at least one kid, maybe two or in the process of adopting #2.
We have paid off H's SLs and our car.
We'll be saving what we need for retirement.
We're both happy in either our current jobs or better ones. I plan to stay employed by my school district for the rest of my career. No necessarily at my school (although I love it currently). But in 5 years I might be a SAHM with two kiddos. We'll see where life takes us.
I'd like to buy a house in that time, something small, probably in a surrounding town.
Good enough in archery to have a good sponsor who will buy my equipment and pay my entry fees.
Have taken my first international trip.
Adopted a dog.
At work I'd like to be one position up and finishing or finished with my master's degree.
I hope this isn't too stalkerish, but it warmed my heart to see this! I was a lurker before I was a poster and followed your story. I love seeing your goals look like this.
I will be 37 and H will be 42. We'll have 2 or possibly 3 kids.
Personally, these will be the "get through it" routine years. School/ daycare, mortgage payments, retirement investments, etc. wr'll (hopefully) be in a bigger house.
Professionally, I'll be working for another organization related to public history projects. Or, working as a consultant for cultural resource management. Or, writing best-selling history books from my home office/ the dock at the lake.