I consider my dh and I's life a success and even financial success. You have to know our upbringing to see it all. My dh grew up with his mom and grandma in another country. They lived day to day and my dh had very little, not to mention little food. So he knows what it's like to be without for half his life. He came here for schooling and met me. I grew up with a single mom and ended up at everyone else's house a lot while my mom worked. Afer my dh and I got married, we pretty much had nothing and relied on help from my mom and others. He went to school full time and worked anything he could get in the college and other places. I worked in a day care center. We had our first child after a year of marriage. We had to go on a program for help with our son's needs. Never the less, we worked harder and moved up in our work positions, and my dh graduated college. We were able to move into a better apartment then. Each year got better as we worked more to get there. We had our dd after 5 years of marriage. Things slowed a bit, but we managed and were never unhappy with what we had. I took whatever I could get for help and bought everything second hand. One day my dh got the opportunity to work at a very good job from one of my past families in the day care. You see he earned the job from working very hard at his schooling and I was veryyy proud of him! We were finally able to get our first home after 7years of marriage. We didn't stop there after that. I opened my own home day care and he went on to get his masters degree. Now after almost 18years of marriage we couldn't be happier! We still do better financially year after year! I am at the point that I no longer need to every advertise for daycare, everything is through referrals. My dh has been promoted and doing very well too!! And the best part of it all is that we still have time for our two kids! It doesn't take anything away from them and I am always home when they get home. We are considered to be middle class but couldn't be any happier! Don't get me wrong, we still strive to do better financially all the time. But in ways that it won't take away from our family itself. Example; stocks, new business adventures, etc. We only hope that our children will learn from all we've done and not get caught up in the fact that they are growing up with a good life and that's the way it is forever.

Wow, that's awesome!