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Haha! Great question! I never thought I would have put my medical career on hold for anything. I thought by now I would be a doctor and would be working at a cancer hospital and working on a cure. I figured I would be eating pasta every night trying to pay back my loans. Instead I fell in love while in residency and left before I was finished. It is crazy where life will take you

I am not where I thought I would be. If someone told me 10 years ago that by this time I would be living in Idaho, married, have a 3 year old and one on the way I would have looked at them like they were absolutely nuts and not listened at all. I would have been 8 years old. I used to say I would never get married or have kids. Never say never. However I am more than glad to be where I am at, God has blessed me so much by giving me my family.

My life is nothing like I thought it would be. Never thought I would be married, never thought I would have kids, never thought I would still be living in my home state, never thought I would own my own business (figured I would stay an exec forever). It's crazy how things turn out. I'm so happy though, I couldn't imagine it any other way now that I'm in it.

No, 10 years ago I was married to someone else. Living in VA and being a SAHM on a military base. So, if someone would have told me that I would be divorced,, had another bad relationship,, had a second child and then would meet the love of my life and merge our family together and be living in WV. I would have told them they were insane.

In middle school I did a life timeline.
2002 graduate HS (check)
2006 graduate college (check) and get a job (nope - went to grad school)
2007 get married (was still in grad school)
2008 have 1st baby (was graduating with MSW)
2010 have 2nd baby (was planning wedding/getting married)
2012 have 3rd baby (am happy with ONE baby, the next is not even being though of yet).

I think back then I thought I would turn into an adult at some point and everything would just happen almost magically. As if I'd morph into a wife and mother, rather than have to grow into the roll myself. It's harder at times than I thought, but also so much more rewarding than I could have imagined. I didn't realize that the thought of having a second child would scare me so much. I want a big family, but can't imagine being able to split my time and attention on two or more kids (though DS is only 8 months old, so I imagine in time it'll feel easier).

I planned on being married around this time, but I initially thought I would wait a year before having a baby... instead my baby is going to be born 2 months before our 1 year anniversary!!

Ten years ago I had just turned 13. I knew that when I grew up I wanted a husband and a family, but I didn't know when I wanted them. I think my 13 year old self would be very surprised to know I was already married and lived across the country from my home town.

My life turned out exactly how I wanted it to but two years late. The order in which things happened was spot on, though. I'm 30 years old now and I thought I'd have my 2nd kid by now but I'm only on #1, but that's fine by me!

i never fully imagined what my life would be like at age 31 - if someone told me a decade ago that I would end up with the man I would marry I'd say they were nuts and needed to fine tune their crystal ball methods. DH and I went to the same high school and in the same class but we ran in completely different circles. He was, shall we say, a social bee (ok, he partied... a lot), popular, and really really cute. I was so the opposite of the social spectrum. Funny how life works sometimes and how wonderful it ends up being.

Nope! I thought I'd be married and have a kid by now already.

I just got married, and am sorta waiting on the kid. I never thought I'd marry someone who already had kids. DH has 2 and they come with a sort of psycho mom. Never saw that coming! Other than their mom, I'm pretty happy with the way my life has turned out. Hopefully we have our kid on the way within the next year.

NO way. I never thought about marriage/weddings/etc. Even through my dating/boyfriends - I always said that there was no next step because I had no plans of getting married until I was 30+. I figured that my 20s were all I had to myself, so after getting out of a on/off again college relationship - I focused on starting my career, QT with friends/family, and dating for fun. Little did I know that I'd come across DH at the tender age of 23. I love that our relationship progressed the way it did, because I was able to live on my own and jumpstart my career throughout our dating years. We got engaged when I was 26 and got married when I was 27. Here I am at 28 with baby fever on fire... it seems so normal now, but if you told me 10 years ago this is where I would be... I woulda said you were crazy!