✓ Figured out how to be the only income earner. ✓ Figured out how to adapt our life to match. ✓ Figured out how to keep my wife full of life while being full time mom. ✓ Figured out how to live within our means.

Having kids sharpens you and makes you focused. You KNOW they will copy you whether they want to or not, so it's important to both teach them well but then show them through your own life.

My go-to saying for them is "I love you! And heck, I even like you."