If you hadn't had kids...

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If you hadn't had kids...
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Thu, 05-20-2004 - 10:34pm
And your dh made enough $$ to support both of you comfortably, do you think you would be working?

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Registered: 02-23-2004
Tue, 05-25-2004 - 7:23pm
Loved your post! We did not know if we wanted kids, probably why it took us 10 years to decide. Definately only want ONE. We love her dearly & can't imagine not having her, but ONE is all.

I feel comfortable that I do have skills that could earn us money. I have so many people tell me I should start a catering business, I should start sewing for people, I should charge for doing these things instead of doing it for free. One of my friends aunts picked up a tote bag, purse and makeup bag this morning that I made for her, even monogrammed and begged me to let her pay me and said I should be doing this for money, not charity. But that isn't me, I just give it all away, that makes me much happier. At least I know I could charge for it if I needed the dollars, you know?

I have huge aspirations and I'm seeing them thru.

Dh is my sweetheart & yes, we mold together just perfectly in how we want to live our lives and what we want out of life.

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Registered: 02-23-2004
Tue, 05-25-2004 - 7:25pm
I don't have a narrow definition. From the start I thought the subject of debate in this thread was that kind of volunteering, not all, including school, church, planting flowers for the old neighbor lady next door. Of course, all of that is also volunteering or giving from the heart, BOTH.

Therefore there is no debate btw us because I agree. I was only debating volutneering from one side, not all of them, see?

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 05-25-2004 - 7:30pm
My DD2 and DD3 never even used sippy cups. DD1 used to run around the house with the cup upside down dripping milk all over the house. So I got rid of all of the sippy cups.
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Registered: 08-19-2003
Tue, 05-25-2004 - 7:32pm
So what do you think he would he do if you stopped cleaning the house, doing the laundry and cooking dinner altogether? Would he take on these chores himself in addition to WOH? What would his reaction be if you continually read novels, watched TV, puttered around the garden all day while he was at work?
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 05-25-2004 - 7:32pm
If you mean "at all", I would have to disagree with that....and wonder what Methodist church taught you that. Every Methodist church I've ever attended taught that Christ was BOTH fully human and fully God. I've heard the "Christ wasn't human" thing before, but never within the context of Methodist theology--I know that John Wesley never believed that.
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Registered: 05-28-2003
Tue, 05-25-2004 - 7:34pm
The beauty of "sippy cups" is that they don't drip when tilted upside down.
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Registered: 03-18-2004
Tue, 05-25-2004 - 7:37pm

As a heads up, I know people who do BOTH (catering and sewing).

Mondo

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Registered: 05-28-2003
Tue, 05-25-2004 - 7:37pm
Ah. Is that what cocoa was asking? I meant that Jesus wasn't "human" in the sense that momofhk was talking about -- you know, like you and me.
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Registered: 03-18-2004
Tue, 05-25-2004 - 7:42pm

I've watched this discussion with some humor, because I'm thinking that's an unfair question.

Mondo

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Registered: 03-18-2004
Tue, 05-25-2004 - 7:45pm
There's a great book on how all that came to be "How Jesus Became God".

Mondo

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