QOTD - Thursday

Mrs.Handy · February 2012

If you could go back in time to your pre-kid time, what would you have done more of knowing what you know now about having kids?

If you're expecting, what are you trying to do more of during your pregnancy before the baby comes?

Mrs.Handy · February 2012

I wish I would have gotten into running more prior to having DS. DH and I ran our first 5K the weekend I found out I was pregnant. After that, it seemed pointless to keep pushing further distances. I'm doing good with my runs, but it is amazing to think how much more time I would have had if I had done this pre kids.

I wish we would have traveled more, but we were trying to pay down debt so that wasn't in the cards.

vtkgirl77 · February 2012

I wish I had gone out more with my girlfriends. It's much harder now to do girls night out now that I have two kids and I miss it sometimes.

kafunder · February 2012

Definitely traveling. We traveled a bit early in our relationship, but we were trying to save money for our wedding so we didn't travel much. Then, right after we got married, DH lost his job and was unemployed for a year, so we were too scared to spend much money on travel. Two days after he finally got a new job, we found out I was pregnant, and then I went on bedrest. I really regret not traveling more before we had kids.

I also wish we had saved more money. Our rent was so cheap and we didn't have nearly as many expenses as we do now, like house repairs, child care, etc. What the heck were we spending our money on?!?

WinesNotWhines · February 2012

Definitely more big trips. We traveled a fair amount, but I really wish we'd gone on an African safari and traveled to Australia and Italy.

On the other hand, I'm not sure how we would've managed to go to all three of those places unless we put off having kids for another 3 years, and/or didn't travel to some of the other places we've already been.

Hey Jellisy · February 2012

I wish we had bought our house before having children. I just find it impossible to devote anytime to painting, decorating, small and big projects. While I love my house, I wish it was more personalized to us.

amh_navyblue · February 2012

More travel with DH (we were engaged 10 months after we met, married the next year and I was pregnant within 3 months of our wedding, so not much time)

Better saving and money management when I was single (no major debt, but I think I could have been further along when I met DH and that would have made post-kids a bit better money-wise)

Better career planning/professional development--over the last year or two things have come together, but I think I stalled out a bit when we started a family, expecting to stay home full time, something that turned out to be unrealistic both from a financial point of view, as well as a personal sanity point of view;)

And I definitely miss having more girl nights out, but I had plenty of them in my single and dating days, so I don't really wish I had more, I just wish I could do it more now;)

RomeRomance06 · February 2012

Honestly, I don't have many regrets. As far as travelling - we had a "quota" of countries we wanted to visit before we had kids and we exceeded that before I was pregnant.

I think the one thing I sort of regret, is not doing more things to personally enrich my skills and career. I wish I had gone to night school and done other career enhancing classes or seminars. I feel like I'm stuck in a rut here at my job and I think I would be moving on and up quicker if I had done that. Now, my priority is my DD, obviously, so I don't feel as motivated or feel I have as much time to focus on my career enhancement.

veruca5839 · February 2012

It's a toss up between travel more or lose all the weight I wanted pre-baby (not just some of it) because now I really feel like I have zero time to workout.

NicoNiko · February 2012

Travel and save money. I have no idea where all our money went....and more of it should have gone to travel.

VARedhead · February 2012

Travel is a big one, though we did a fair amount. We were hampered more by lack of vacation time (or flexible bosses) to take any more big trips than we already did.

I would say just generally going out. Even going out to a casual dinner now is a big ordeal, either because we have DD with us and we have to factor that in, or we have to line up a sitter, which is always a PITA.

tomandcourt · February 2012

I wish we had saved more money and talked to a financial planner/laid out out a budget.

Otherwise, I have no real regrets. We did lots of traveling, going out, had our house the way we wanted, etc. DH really wanted to have a full year after getting married before TTC, and while at the time I was antsy to get started, now I'm glad we really took advantage of that year to do whatever we wanted.

Oh and, I wish I had slept more.

QueSrah · February 2012

No real regrets related to the transition to having a kid. We traveled as much as we could with our vacation allotments at work, ate out a lot, went out with friends enough. I wish I had appreciated the pleasure of sitting at home and reading or watching tv uninterrupted more, but it's hard to appreciate how precious that is until the expansive alone time is taken away.

Sofka · February 2012

If there was a way to bank sleep, I'd sleep more! Not sure how b/c I used to sleep 11-12hrs on weekends, but I am sure I would find the time and bank it

I am racking my brain but I can't think of anything...we got married in our early 30s and had DD in our mid-30s so I had a lot of time to do a lot...I've been to dozens of countries, we own our house, we were never big partiers, etc.

And it's not like we can't still do the African safari and other things when the kids are older!

SoonToBeMrsDTS · February 2012

We would have saved more. When we had two incomes and a small mortgage we went out to eat a couple times a week, DH bought lunch everyday, I didn't shop the sale adds and we went away or went to a concert almost every weekend. I just think what our savings would be like if we were more diligent about it then like we are now.

kastle · February 2012

I don't really have any regrets. I mean, it would be awesome if I could have slept more, "banked" that time & then was able to use it when sprout was a newborn.

But we had gone to the places I was totally *dying* to visit and we were financially ready.

I guess maybe I wish I was already in my new career before we had kids. It's a little stressful thinking about a new job, a new career & full-time childcare happening all at once. It would have been great to go back to work, get childcare underway & then think about a new job. Instead, it's a bit of everything at once. But it's a small regret that I don't really feel like I could even change if I went back in time.

LindseyJW · February 2012

i wish we'd spent less $ on dining out and more $ on nice vacations. sooooo much easier to travel without kids.

other than that, i'm pretty content with having kids at the time in our lives when we did.

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