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35-40 year olds only allowed to complete this....

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lavenderrr · 21/04/2005 19:17

5+ years on what have you achieved and are you glad of this ectra few years to accomplish things...will say in a mo when can collect my thoughts

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jenkel · 21/04/2005 19:41

Hits
2 wonderful girls
Travelled the world - Australia, NZ, Palau, Fiji, Singapore, America, Hong Kong
Relatively secure financially
Very happy marriage
Able to be a SAHM after a pretty good career which was surprising for me
Own Car
Own House
Learnt to Scuba Dive
Married for 15 years

Misses
Only one really, out of my control but my Dad never got to see my beautiful girls

The difference now than when I was 30 is the financial security bit and we have a bigger house Oh and of course, didnt have the girls then

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lavenderrr · 21/04/2005 19:42

oh come on guys we're spring chickens at 30, 5 years on it's really better...40 is the new 30 kind of thinking....discovering mumsnet for one

2)becoming more aware of how good it is to be a woman (sexuality increases these years)
3)learning what life is really about (wine and mumsnet....no discovering some depth to things)
4) and best of all not worrying if you have grey hair, cellulite, look better without make-up than with and just doing stuff that you wouldn't ahve dreamed of in your 20's!!!!

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lavenderrr · 21/04/2005 19:43

sorry to hear about your father jenkel.

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CountessDracula · 21/04/2005 19:44

don't understand the Q

Lonelymum · 21/04/2005 19:44

Between being 30 and 40 I have had 4 children and stayed at home raising them. I have moved four times.

Apart from that, I have done nothing really Now that I am 40, I am going to spend a couple more years still being a SAHM, and then I hope my life will take off again.

Ask me when I get to 50!

Hermione1 · 21/04/2005 19:45

what about us 20's???

Hermione1 · 21/04/2005 19:45

sorry.

Lonelymum · 21/04/2005 19:46

Read and learn Hermione!

JoolsToo · 21/04/2005 19:46

are you ageist?

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lavenderrr · 21/04/2005 19:46

CountessDracula, at 30 you might have just been on the verge of stuff, some people do things later than others that's all (like finding job you love later in life or whatever) and 35 is very different to 30 that's all.

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Hermione1 · 21/04/2005 19:47

ok sorry was feeling abit left out that;s all but i'll read and learn.

(sits in corner being good )

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lavenderrr · 21/04/2005 19:48

your children are the biggest achievement lonely mum...good on you for doing it 4 times (all that pain I stopped after 2).

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mancmum · 21/04/2005 19:48

my life took over at 30 -- met DH, moved north, travelled loads and then had two perfect kids... feel more confident settled and happy than ever did in my 20s when skinnier, richer and more glamorous... just hit 40 and looking forward to consolidating it all...

QueenEagle · 21/04/2005 19:48

I'll be able to do this one in 2 months' time but don't think I'll have conquered the world in that time!

By the time I'm 40 - that's a different matter, things will have changed no end round here and look forward to letting you all know!!!

Hermione1 · 21/04/2005 19:49

Do you feel any different being in your 30s then when you did in your 20s??

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lavenderrr · 21/04/2005 19:50

do you mean generally...as in aimed at everyone Hermione1

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Lonelymum · 21/04/2005 19:52

Difficult to answer Hermione as my life changed anyway when I changed from my 20s to my 30s. In my 20s I was working, living alone or with flatmates, childless. I got married at 29, pg at 30 and then my 30s were spent as a wife and mother, not working. So yes, I felt different in my 30s but I would have done anyway.

Hermione1 · 21/04/2005 19:52

yeah sorry. at everyone, just wondered, cause i don't feel any different than i did in my late teens.

QueenEagle · 21/04/2005 19:53

When I actually hit 30 I felt no diff at all. I was on my own with 3 kids wondering if anyone would ever love me ever again.

In the last 4 years I have met a lovely man who adores me, loves my kids as if they were his own and had 2 more with him.

The only major diff I would say is that I am far far more confident in myself than I ever was in my 20's. And def true about a woman hitting her sexual peak in her 30's!

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lavenderrr · 21/04/2005 19:53

how old are you?

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Hermione1 · 21/04/2005 19:56

Me?? 26 today. onlly 4 years to go. i had my first dd when i was 18/19

LittleMissShy · 21/04/2005 19:56

Married and had ds at 35
Moved continents at 37
Almost 40 still feel -30
Have travelled a lot, europe, Australia, Carribean, South Africa...
Own car
Still have debts but paying them off!!!

Hopefully will own own house next year

Regrets....dad not seeing me happily married and having gorgeous ds...he would have been so happy to see me settled and happy
Never really had a career and still don't know what I want to be when I grow up!!!

And have asked dh for scuba diving lessons for 40th in September, so another string to my bow...

Lonelymum · 21/04/2005 19:58

Happy Birthday Hermione!

Hermione1 · 21/04/2005 20:00

ty lonelymum.

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lavenderrr · 21/04/2005 20:02

do you mind me asking if the travelling was something that cost quite a bit and you put off for a while or are you quite well off (parents etc and can afford this) to all

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