This part of my life is over, maybe
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Sometimes I get sappy about things that were supposed to happen or could have happened before, but now that we have Bailey they won’t happen. Like I always thought we would take a trip to Europe before we had kids. We got pregnant much faster than I expected (and if you really care, YES we were trying but we thought it would take longer than it did for a variety of reasons). I LOVE LOVE LOVE to travel, and I want to travel more. Last fall we had a trip planned for Las Vegas. I mean it was actually booked and everything, for this same weekend last year. I was in my first trimester of my pregnancy in September, and I was exhausted. I could not fathom going on a vacation or being in casinos near smoke. I knew I would not be able to have anything to drink- okay not that I’m a drunk, but seriously, what’s Vegas without a few drinks here and there? Anyway we ended up cancelling our trip and we were only out $100… but sometimes I regret that. I wish we would have had the extra cash to take a nice vacation when I was like five months along. I wish we had the cash now. I would take Bailey with us and then pay a nanny to watch her so we could go out at night sometimes or relax by the pool 
Yeah, dream on. I just don’t want to think that part of my life is completely over. I guess it’s just “put on hold” for a while, really. Anyway, it’s too late and I’m rambling.
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I too love to travel. I began as early as possible, putting away like $50/month for travel. In a year’s time, you have $600, which is enough for at least a nice weekend somewhere. But as time went on, I put away more and more (every time we got a raise, I upped the ‘vacation’ allowance each month). Our daughters are now 10 and 7 and we started taking nice regular family vacations in the summer when they were 6 and 3. We’ve been to Wisconsin Dells/Mall of America (11 day trip), FL/Disney (17 day trip), the mountains of Tennessee (about 12 days), Texas (2 week trip), and this year it was 13 days to Ohio, New York State, Niagara Falls, and parts of Canada. We don’t live in a BIG house but it’s big enough for our family. My priorities lie in $$$ for college (another area where we drop a pretty hefty deposit every month) and vacations. We’re doing the Disney cruise next summer. You won’t be able to travel as easily while she (they if you have more) are real little, but once they get to be toddlers, it works out. We did take our kids on smaller trips to more local places (the farthest was Santa Claus, Indiana to an amusement park called Holiday World, which is WONDERFUL for little kids) when they were 2.