What goals do y'all have for your future?

[peeps7]

My grandmother has land that she has saved for me and my dream is to move out there and start my dog breeding buisness. Not a big dream but it's mine.

 

[broncbuster07]

Family Farm! Oh yes!

I want to get my garage cleaned out and finish the inside of it so I can use it more.
I want to build a deck and put in some rock walkways around the house
I want to add on to our house so we can have a formal living room and a family room
I want to buy additional acre around my place so it doesn't get developed and we can get more livestock
I want to start going to church again, and rekindle my relationship with Jesus Christ
I want my wife to hurry up and hit her thirties
I want to plant alot of trees
I want to put pea gravel in my driveway
I want to enlarge my flower beds
I want to sell alot more equipment here at work so we can hire some more folks
I want to fence off some more of my place
I want to put a lift on the old Dodge
I want to build a new coop for the turkeys
I want to sand and restain some of my daughter's furniture
I want to help legalize marijuana
I want to raise my kids to be caring, polite, god-fearing adults
I want to live to know my grandkids
I want to leave a legacy
I want to put more but we'll be here alll day!

 

[6chix]

1. Be the best father I can be, raise a kind intelligent son
2. Be the best husband I can be, treat my wife with respect at all times. She gave me the joy of my life my son.
3. Open a small family style restaraunt
4. Retire and live a happy retirement

 

[silkiechicken]

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Blackberries!!! Take all of mine! They grow up trees, over buildings though native plants, take over EVERYTHING and are a terrible prickly nuisance! People here spend thousands of hours and dollars trying to get rid of them all! Frickin canes can grow 10 feet a week!!!

You're lucky with you already can grow!

That should be another one of my goals, get rid of every last blackberry bush on the property!

 

[arwmommy]

Silikechicken, I had to respond!

I have my Bachelors in Sociology Deviance and DH has his bachelors/Master's in Tax Accounting. When we decided to start having children my FIL made a snotty comment that "If I was just going to be a SAHM, the least I could have done was support DH while *he* went to school and not just *add* to the student loans by getting my degree, that was a "waste" anyway that I was going to be a SAHM"



I responded by "Well, who do you want to raise your grandchildren? A smart, educated woman or not? How is my education-- or any education--*EVER* a waste? It has given me great understanding (in my specific degree) of behavior, of child development, of so much else when you look at general ed. classes (history, biology, math, language, humanities, etc, etc). Isn't THAT who you want raising your grandchildren???????"

My desire, and our plan, for me to be a SAHM may change at some point--- if DH gets in an accident, gets killed, or cheats on me and my father kills him, etc

..... you never know what the future holds! I may yet use that degree in a professional setting, or I may only use it to raise my children and better understand the world around me!

Incedentaly, I will say, that I wish I had a different major! I LOVED it (all about deviance in our society-- serial killers, child psycopatholgy, what we do as parents that creates monsters--- facinating stuff!) However, I really need a PhD in it to do anything! I wish I had a BSN and was an RN!!! When the kids are older I will probably go to nursing school, even if I only work one or two days a month at the hospital. (After my DS major medical adventures, I can only think in "medical language" now! The hospital seems the logical place for me to end up!)

Just wanted to not go that comment left unanswered!!

 

[Frozen Feathers]

Mmmm short-term goal, successfully potty-train my DD.

And finish the Silkie coop.

Other then that I would like to breed my own line of SQ, award winning Silkies.

Get horses again and a pony for DD, which requires fixing the outback well, re-doing fencing (amazing how much 2 years of neglect takes it's toll on fencing) and lots and lots of brush cutting.

Remodel the kitchen, which hasn't been changed since the 30's and is run-down and ugly!!

 

[SeaChick]

What an interesting- and thought-provoking- thread.....

My super-short-term goal was to convince our city we could raise chickens: check!

My overall goal is to live every day as fully as possible. I had breast cancer a few years ago, at a pretty young age, and it was a real wake-up call to live your life NOW rather than put off your dreams, or fritter time away rushing around doing errands and watching TV. To that end, my (our) next goal is to sail around the world. We're hoping to leave in fall 2009 and take 5 years. (Don't worry, we already have an excellent home lined up for the chickens!)

The long-term goal, when we get back from that trip, is to live on a small farm with a very energy-efficient home and live as sustainably/locally as possible. If we weren't planning the sailing trip we'd be moving right now. Until then, we'll live as close to that life as we can on our small suburban lot. The freezer's stuffed with produce and our quarter grass-fed local cow arrives tomorrow; hopefully the girls will start laying soon and -wow- we're doing pretty well.

Also goal-wise, my main life's work is to raise a caring, intelligent, creative daughter and in that small way add beauty and goodness to the world.

Stacey

 

[SeaChick]

P.S. To Angie:
Re: kitchen remodel.... I recommend taking a road trip to Stoughton MA and checking out the cabinetry at Ikea. We remodeled our kitchen several years ago and bought the cabinets there: they are VERY well made and super stylish for the price. They also use low-VOC MFD for the bodies, unlike the same price-point Home Depot type that off-gas terrible, carinogenic stuff for years. They come flat-pack so you have to put them together, one of the reasons you get such better quality for the price! We did a really high-end looking remodel for about $3000, doing most of the work ourselves.
Stacey

 

[silkiechicken]

Seriously! I say education is never a waste. Even if you don't "use" it, you still have learned a lot and it improved yourself as a person and will use what you learned on the side if not directly. In school it's not what you learn per se, it is what you learn about yourself and what you learn about how to learn. Today's work requires continual learning and getting an education helps you socialize with others and have a broadened view of the world. I sure don't remember 99% of the stuff I was tested on but I am sure that I have gained much more in the experience and the doing it while there. My mom only finished highschool and I can tell that there is a part of logic missing in a lot of her thought. It is not really her fault though as she grew up during chairman Mao's time and they had closed schools, shipped students to farms and farmers to factories... basically broke down the system, brain washed all the youth, and literally murdered the eduated behind closed doors. I am glad I have the opportunity to get an education and am even more grateful that I will have at least my first degree with no debt!

A goal I have if I ever have kids is to show them where food comes from!

 

[Omeletta]

Get my Babies home from Ethiopia! We are adopting a sibling group (hopefully) but don't have a referral yet. We are still in the homestudy-paper work process. Soon we can give the Agency our papers, and WAIT! (and WAIT more!)