Quote: If you look at LL herself, where do you see her in 5 years? Is that where she wants to be?
5 years is a total different ball game in the life of LL...in 5 years the kids will be 9 and 7...a bit more independant, going to school most of the day (thus enabling LL a bit more time for herself to get a haircut stress free and baby sitter free...to go to the gym etc)
add a few more years onto that and you've got LL potentially seeking at least a part time job (someones gotta be around during the summer and vacations) preferable within the school system to allow me to still be around for the kids...
add on some more and LL may be able to put the degree her mother worked (ok and dad too) to pay for, to good use...
add a few more years on and LL may just get herself a masters and go ahead and take on that career she's been so afraid of...#1 cause she still hasn't gotten her own crap together yet and #2 cause so many baulk at her choice
add on a few more years and the kids will be grown and LL's life can be whatever she wants...if she wants to go out to dinner with her h (or heck even without) she wont need a sitter...heck by then her kids may have kids of thier own.
as far as h and LL??? whatever will be will be....does it look grim? nope...a tad laid back at times for LL but that's why she's got a group of nutty friends to get together with now and again..and once in a while h does join in the insanity...heck just last year for my b-day we had a bonfire pty with all my friends...even the ones who swore they wouldn't go outside (january in new england is cold) were there roasting marshamellows for smores.
