[future_adoption_mommy]

Okay in the interview today I was asked where I saw myself in two years. I said I saw myself at that job ( ) but I also said I saw myself starting the adoption process. I know the chances of me starting the adoption process in the next couple of years is kind of slim, it just kind of came out though.

[Brittanie]

You never know what can happen in a couple of years honey. When I turned 21 (March of 2004), I started filling out mission papers. I wasn't going to school, and I wasn't dating anyone and didn't look to be starting to any time soon. It was the end of April that I had that trip with Matt where I truly got to know him and realized he was who I was supposed to marry. I was married June of 2005, well before I would have been back from a mission.

But on my birthday, I totally could not have foreseen that.

So just because it looks bleak now, you don't know what's around the corner for you. A couple years is a lot of time for things to change drastically.

[8miraclez]

If you never look to the future, you'll never have anything to reach for. I actually went on a mission. Things happened that I had no control over and after 6 months of being out, I was sent home for medical reasons. I couldn't have known why at the time and just felt like I had failed. That was the end of August. The beginning of November I started chatting with my now DH. May of the next year, we were married. If I had stayed out on my mission, I never would have met him (he was planning on returning to the East Coast) and I wouldn't have been married.

I had 2 kids in 2 years so I know a lot can happen in a small amount of time.