Termite TV - Life Stories

Okay, I’m Sara B. And rather then the open ended thought of just describing the lines of my life, I thought I would discuss choices. And choices as in, whether or not to have kids. And whether or not to go to work or stay home. Initially when I was in college and high school I thought, “Boy, I don’t want to have kids.” It was rough getting through high school. Lotta self defeating thoughts and I thought I didn’t want to put anybody else through that, so I thought I’m not going to have kids and I stuck with that for all the years through college. And I told the gentleman I was dating when I was finishing up school that my decision was to not have kids. And we dated, continued to date, then through graduate school, he was in graduate school and we were sorta a t a crux whether we should break up or get married. And he made it a contract of marriage to think about well, you want to get married, I would do it under the condition that we would have kids and I thought this guy was pretty special. So I said “sure, I’ll get married and I think you’re a good person to have kids with.” It wasn’t too hard a decision, for some reason, at that point. I had perhaps resolved some of the issues of feeling negative about life. It seemed like a good decision to have kids with this guy. And we ended up getting married. Initially I was set on the idea that I would keep working when I was having kids. And I had a degree in physical therapy by the time we had kids, which was kinda nice to have that on board. And I always thought, wow, I would be so lousy on a domestic front. And would not feel fulfilled by that because I would be doing a good job with that. Lousy housekeeper, lousy cook, um, unorganized. All of which make for pretty lousy choices for being a domestic engineer. But we moved away from the place I had been working and got my degree and such. We moved up here and decided that by moving up here I would be throwing everything up in the air and was going to reshuffle my life and reorganize it. We were discussing before the tape ended, oh, reprioritizing has been really nice. It’s just that it’s been really nice to have that opportunity in life to feel like, I don’t like where my priorities are right now. I felt like when I was working quite a bit, I was working three days a week and was trying to retrofit my kids into my life. Had to go here, had to go there and by moving and completely changing your schedule and your surroundings. It’s a really good way to lay things out a little bit more, how you would prefer them. Meaning a lot of time and priority with the kids and what they’re doing. And yet I’m making sure I’m getting out and exercising. And god I just don’t have time for working right now, I guess I’ll probably get back to doing physical therapy in another couple of years. And these guys will be more in school. It was lucky to have the opportunity of a supportive spouse. I know that’s not all that common. So that’s it, guys you want to say something? Sit on my lap and say “hi.” Say “hi, I’m glad my mom decided to have kids.” Son- Umm… What was that?