I'd have had my kids 10 years earlier.

I got the first hugs that really felt like HUGS from my kids. Sort of...okay...totally amazed me. I didn't expect it. I wasn't asking for it.

I'd always felt hurt by how my mother tried to get her needs met through me, so I was NEVER going to do that with my kids....then they hugs me. And it changed me.

Not that kids are easy to raise, And I worried (and still worry) about messing them up.....but I totally adore them (that doesn't mean that they still don't have to do the laundry...but I totally adore them....and they both know it....

Awesome! It sounds like you are doing a great job with your children. Thanks for your reply, Patti22.

Awesome! I have heard people say that they would not have children because they would not want to subject them to our troubled world, but what such people don't know is that children bring with them the answers to changing our troubled world. It sounds like you are doing a great job with your children. Thank you for your reply, Patti22.

After high school, I would have went STRAIGHT to college, not try to get a degree in my 40s, which I did not complete.

If I could change one thing in my life, it would be to go back and correct the mistakes I made during my rebellious age. If I could change my past, I would.

I would never have moved to California. The only reason I ended up here is because I was running from the shame of my past, in which I was horribly abused. California isn't a good place to live at the present time and likely won't be for many decades to come. It is over-run by Mexican illegal aliens who bring with them criminal activity such as murder, graffiti spray paint, illegal drugs, criminal gangs, you name it. Smart Americans left this state in droves decades ago. All of the entry-level jobs in this area go to Mexicans, meaning there are very few jobs for law-abiding, English-speaking people. What a moron I am for continuing to live here. I wish I were living in North Dakota or Iowa, because at least these states still resemble the United States of America.

I would not have gotten married for the second time. I made that choice, and my whole life changed for the worst. It especially affected my 2 older children's lives in a negative way. But I made that choice, and with God's grace, I could see it through. Making the wrong decisions have in fact made me and my children much stronger and wiser people.