Mrs. Oatmeal posted on the blog about her family feeling complete and it got me thinking about everyone's thought process of their "complete family" and if they were done or not!

Before ever meeting DH, I was firm in believing I wanted three children minimum! I was determine to never go below that number. Reason being that growing up it was just me and my sister, and although I had a brother and sister from my dad, I wasn't raised with them. Having it be just me and my sister as BORING. So three was my number or more!

When I met DH, he's one of 6!! Needless to say he was all for having a big family. Blindly we decided on no less than 3 and no more than 5! I honestly laugh so hard when I think about us saying 5 kids was acceptable for us. Kudos to the families who can do but that's for sure not for us. But we didn't come to terms with that years later.

1st kid; a boy. After labor I said no way I'm doing this 4 more times. Maybe three more times making a total of 4 kids. Well then DS grew up a bit and I was like oh no!!! 3 kids it is! It'll be perfect. Well after DS got even older and I was pregnant with baby number 2, we had already been through so many difficult (yet super wonderful) parenting challenges and we decided, 2 it is.

So how did we get from 5 to 2...

1. Care - daycares are out of control expensive here and I was not comfortable with the idea so finding someone we trusted to watch DS, IMPOSSIBLE! We're in a good situation now but it's only until I pop out DD.

2. Outnumber - I has extremely involved in activities and thankfully my sister was not but my mom was a single mom and she would've been out number. I didn't want that to happen in my family.

3. MONEY - let's be honest, unless there is a secret millionaire on here, money is hard to hold on to when you have kids. We love to vacation and the thought of having to taking x amount of kids was a littleeeee scary. 2 we can handle but more than that YIKES. Plus thinking about activities, clothes, food, things for just fun. It all adds up.

4. Sleep - I need it. It's that simple. I won't be getting it until about 4-6 more years and then to start all over...no thanks.

5. Dating DH - I miss dating my husband. I miss being able to go out with him kid free but I also hate leaving DS and soon DD with someone on the weekends because I miss them during the week. We do it from time to time but man will it be nice when the kids are older.

NOW with that all being said I have to say, we have spoken about adopting a foster child in about 15 years or so and and older child if possible. We have a couple of reasons are to why foster care and why in the far future.

Given all this can change but for now just 2 will do.

Are you done? or not?! Why or why not?

Just some Friday fun!