Sometimes I think this way and then I remind myself that all of the best things in life are cheap or free. Trips to the ice cream shop, playing at the park. Hiking. Biking as a family, going to get a hamburger and fries etc…

Kids don’t need trips to Europe or whatever. That’s shit that adults want. Kids like regular life.

You also don’t know what unseen benefits being marginally poorer are providing you.

For instance I could have bought a home with a bedroom for every kid and probably still will at some point. But the bunk beds and shared bedrooms my kids have increase their bonding when they’re young making it likely for them to be closer when they’re older.

TLDR Hodl

You said forever. Time to mean it.