What did you think you'd never do, that you're doing now?

[Charla]

Kind of, sort of, a spin-off on Andrea's "What's your thing" thread...did you ever swear "I'll never do this" or "this is what I want for my life" and then do the exact opposite?

I never understood the people who bought organic food or shopped in natural food stores. Now DH and I go there all the time :embaresse

I know there are more, but this is what I've thought of so far :22:

[Rynonut Mom]

Getting on the computer 1st thing in the morning and surfing, & talking to cyber friends all over the world!
Liking and Wanting "geeky" things like computer upgrades, new camera equipment, etc! :)

[MarshaZepeda]

This might sound bad - but - having kids. lol! In HS, I didn't think I ever wanted kids. Now I'm on my 4th one! Also, dropping thousands of dollars on photog and comp equipment!!! (My comp alone - not incl. monitor - cost me 2300... :whatchuta) which btw needs to prob be replaced soon. It's been acting kinda weird lately...

[ChristineS]

hey marsha, I said I'd never get married and have kids either -- and now we'll have six ;)
I was headed for a career in astrophysics (no, i'm not kidding) and thought a husband and kids would really cramp my style ROFL

[Kelsey]

I said in 9th grade that I wouldn't like doing sports photography. Now I am known in the photo department for sports photography (gymnastics mainly)

[Cynnder]

having 3 kids~!

[Charla]

I said I'd never meet anyone I met online...um, I married one :)

[TraceyLee]

my senior year in high school, mike took me to prom. we had broken up a few months before and were going as friends because i had already bought the dress and we had already paid to go. when i told my best friend this, she snorted and said that she's willing to bet anyone, any amount of money that mike and i were going to end up married some day. i laughed, told her that was one bet she'd lose, because, ya know, mike and i were sooooo over, we were just friends, and that i'd find a 'real man' at college.

um, ok, yeah. ten years later, mike and i are married, with three kids. :D

[Deena]

OK, definately the kids for me, i always swore my family would come second only after i was in a well established career....Now i have 4 by birth, and 1 by marriage!!!

[ccouch]

- being a SAHM. i thought that was just way too conventional for me - turns out i wouldn't have it any other way.
- being passionately devoted Christian. i didn't get what all the fuss was about and saw religion as something that would tie me down instead of setting me free. boy, was i wrong!

[chloe]

I said I'd never meet anyone I met online...um, I married one :)

LOL, Charlene, I can totally relate: about 1 month before meeting my boyfriend online, I told a friend of mine that, unlike her, I could never fall in love with a man I never saw! Oh, boy, I was wrong!!

[InLoveWithDOTS]

Can I say WORK? lol Seriously, I made a choice to stay home when my oldest son was a couple months old... I swore I would never go back to work... EVER..... yet here I am 8 years later posting from my office, LOL

[teggie]

Have kids. I always swore I would never have kids of my own. I didn't want to go through childbirth. It scared me. I wanted to just adopt. obviously that has changed!

[Tara18]

letting my kids run around in just a diaper and no shoes in the backyard. i used to think that was the epitomy of redneck-ness lol. (after three kids, i dont care anymore! lol)

also, my kids wore missmatched clothes today. lol i swore i would never let my kids leave the house not looking good lol. oh well.

[Lynn]

I was another one that was never going to have kids. Just not interested .. then one morning not long before I was 30 i woke up and found I had changed my mind!

Also never thought I would marry a younger man.

[midgetprincess79]

Getting married, having a munchkin and most of all being a SAHM...never would have imagined that one!

[Leila]

I just knew that I'd go to college and get a doctorate in something. Somehow, I missed that boat though and only have 10 college credits at this point. I also knew that I'd never be a SAHM...and yet, here I am!!

[Charla]

Lynn, me too...DH is 2 1/2 years younger than me. I never would have imagined that!

[mamakimberly]

i thought I'd never live in Texas.

I still don't know why I live here though ;) :)

[scrapsandsass]

letting my kids run around in just a diaper and no shoes in the backyard. i used to think that was the epitomy of redneck-ness lol. (after three kids, i dont care anymore! lol)

also, my kids wore missmatched clothes today. lol i swore i would never let my kids leave the house not looking good lol. oh well.

LOL Tara! That totally cracked me up. I was the same way. When my SD first moved in with us she was 13 and dressed horribly. I used to fight the battle to try and at least make sure there wasn't plumber's crack issues, but now I've given up. After two years, she still looks horrible and I just ignore it.

[Hom74]

Ummm...never thought I would scrapbook! I have my LOs u/l to my Flickr! acct to share w/family and RL friends and my friend just laughed at me when she found out *I* got into scrapbooking.

Breastfeeding a toddler. I never I always wanted to *try* in the beginning, but never really knew how long I would go w/it. BF DD1 almost 14mths and am still going w/DD2 at 16mths.

[andrea c.]

My job! I have always been one to get queasy at the site of blood and gore and now I'm a nurse who doesn't flinch for the most part of it, go figure :embaresse

[lovesher2boys]

I never thought I'd be chatting with friends online that I've never met IRL. I used to tease a coworker of mine for her addiction to message boards and chatrooms and now here I am-probably way worse than she ever was! LOL

I also never thought I'd marry anyone younger than me, the same height as me, and a mexican. My husband is so far removed physically from the guys I dated that it came as quite a shock when I realized he was the one! LOL