Number of children

[mackbamf]

For me going from one to two kids was a much bigger jump. It didn't feel like the work doubled with the second but more like it tripled. I was worried how much things would change by adding a third but it was a pretty smooth transition. Maybe at that point I was already just numb to it all...

[JerryG]

3 girls, all spaced apart by about 3 1/2 years. I wish we would have had one more, but that thought didn't really hit us until a year or two after I had a vasectomy.
I have two in college and one is a freshman in high school. I would say go three for sure, fun watching them grow up together and bonding. It was nice seeing my two eldest daughter come home from college to help my youngest get ready for her first high school dance.

As far as transportation goes, we have had a Dodge Durango's ever since they have come out. We could never get ourselves to pull the trigger on a minivan, just couldn't do it.

[ray1970]

Children are evil, annoying creatures. I say the fewer you have the better.

[stenz]

Thanks for the input gents (Ray you're not included, lol).

[ray1970]

I was kidding. Sort of. The wife and I have two. A boy and a girl. Nice to have one of each. Two was plenty for us. They are 26 and 22 now. The teenage years are the worst. They are both lucky to still be alive.

[cstone]

3 here and I cheated my wife out of more (snip). I thought at the time I was doing the right thing, but have learned over time, mostly because I am incredibly dense and a bit on the slow side of the thinking curve, that our family should have been bigger. Maybe five or six would have been good, but deciding the number on my own was wrong and I will forever be sorry for that piece of arrogance.

I hope you and your wife continue to discuss the issue and that you will be open to loving all of your children, no matter how many you have. God Bless you and your family.

Be safe.

[HoneyBadger]

HB Jr is 19 months old now (It's going by so fast!!) and we're starting to talk about baby #2, but things are on hold for a few months due to some potential changes from my job. Mrs. HB married me knowing that I want at least 3 kids. We'll see where life and God take us.

3 here and I cheated my wife out of more (snip). I thought at the time I was doing the right thing, but have learned over time, mostly because I am incredibly dense and a bit on the slow side of the thinking curve, that our family should have been bigger. Maybe five or six would have been good, but deciding the number on my own was wrong and I will forever be sorry for that piece of arrogance.

I hope you and your wife continue to discuss the issue and that you will be open to loving all of your children, no matter how many you have. God Bless you and your family.

Be safe.

This is a fantastic response. I think I've said this before (recently) but your wisdom is overwhelming cstone!

Enough for what? The revolution? To build Noah's Ark 2.0? To form a family band and tour the countryside?

And by the way, I call absolute undeniable bullshit on this...two is plenty. I enjoy things like sanity and knowing that by the time I'm 45 I will have an empty nest. To each their own obviously though.

Wow. I'm sorry you feel that way.

[Jamnanc]

If you have a third, you should go ahead and have four. That way two can play with each other at all times. With three, one is always on the outs.

[Mtn.man]

We were fortunate to have ours when we were young, got to grow up with them. Now they are older than us, so...

[Graves]

None here, and I plan on never having any, but I wish you the best of luck either way!