While driving the girls to camp this morning this was the topic of discussion on the radio station I listen to. Since after dropping them off , the car was quiet and I thought about it the entire way home.

1. Both of my parents grew up rather poor but through their hard work the family business became quite successful. They have been very generous and I would love to return their generosity by buying them a place in Rehoboth Beach that is a block or less (oceanfront would be nice!) from the ocean. I would also like to get them a nice condo in downtown Wilmington on the Brandywine river.

2. Pay for everyone's education: my girls, my two goddaughters and my cousin who finally at almost 44 has decided to do something with her life and go to nursing school.

3. To fix up my aunt's house and pay off my another aunt's house.

4. Give to charity: GERD research, Habitat for Humanity, Easter Seals and an endowment to the University of Delaware to start an undergraduate and graduate program in Speech Pathology.

5. And of course, pay off my house, home equity and save for retirement.

Fortunately Delaware recently passed a law allowing lottery winners to remain completely anonymous so I wouldn't be bombarded with strangers asking for money.

Now all I have to do is start playing the lottery!! which I have only done maybe once or twice in my life!

This is also a topic that my dh and I have thought/talked about alot! This is what we would do...

1. Pay off dh's and his dads business. Then we would give his mom and dad some money to do with what they want.

2. Let my mom and dad build their dream house (which isn't really huge, but what they want). They would end up moving to Colorado, so we would have to build a house there also.

3. Build our dream house, get the vehicles and play toys (dh wants a boat, I want a jet sky).

4. Put plenty away so that the kids and rest of the family wouldnt have to worry again!! Make sure that our parents, brother and his family, sister and her family, and grandparents were good to go!!

5. I would want to donate to plenty of charitys, the main one in mind is the Humane Society (I'm a big animal lover)

1. Pay off all debts for the whole fam!
2. Education for all!
3. New houses for all!
4. Boat and toys
5. New vehicles
6. Invest, invest, invest...I want to be SET for retirement.
7. Charity: GERD, All Children's Hospital, The Ronald McDonald House, Humane Society, etc.

Basically, my first order of business would be to make sure that the fam and I would all be comfy and taken care of!

1. Pay off the house I live in (with my best friend who actually owns the house)
2. Buy the house down the street that has a mother-in-law appt up stairs & move in to that
3. Pay movers to move my mom out here & in to the MIL appt.
4. Pay off all bills, I mean everything
5. Put away $ for school for the kids
6. Send my own self back to school
7. Set up a full wood shop
8. Invest the rest & donate a percentage of the earnings each year to charity

1. I'd cut huge checks to Roni and to PAGER
2. I'd buy an island
3. I'd invite only my best-est friends and a few select non-crazy family members to live on that island with me
4. I'd live happily ever after.

The end!

Its soo nice to dream isnt it lol...

I would buy 100 acres of land and build a beautiful house with a wrap around porch it would be awesomely decorated with everything i cant afford now and wish i could! I would have lots of animals :) i love animals,, i would have miniture donkeys, pigs, and goats.

I would also build my mom a nice house on that land so she could be near me :) and buy her a new car.

I would donate as well to charities and organizations.

I would no longer be a nurse lol i would stay home with my babies until they were school age, then i would open a doggy daycare once my kids were in school all day :)

In the summers i would take a great vacation to somewhere i've never been.. :)

then i woke up! lol

I would start by buying TV airtime during SuperBowl Sunday (I think that is the most expensive and most watched) and then when I had everyone's attention - they would hear all about infant reflux.

And we would all definitely be on the Oprah show - see what you can do with money!

I would buy health - if I could - for Shae-Lynne

I would buy Roni, Michael and Shae-Lynne a house beside mine.

I would buy me a house beside Roni, Michael and Shae-Lynne.

I would continue to work at my job.

I would continue to IRD.

1. I would pay off my dads medical expenses(just under a million bucks)

2. Buy about 500 acres of land to build several houses for me the kids and my mom..

3. pay for all of the kids rto go to college.

4. build a homless shelter that was seperate apartments so everyone can have a warm place to sleep.

5. Set my mom up for the rest of her life.

6. donate to IRD and other charities.

7. Build a house in England for summer use

8. I would also set up my brothers and sisters with money to live very comfortably for the rest of their lives.

9. build an IRD meeting place of our very own for conventions.

10. bring in the best specialists for our many GERDlings who are still on feding tubes and other problems.

If I won the lottery I would.....

Pay off the lottery taxes

Invest a huge chunk for retirement

Buy 529s for kids education

Pay off our house

Help my parents

Donate to charities

Go travel for one year all over the world (with nanny, lol)

I would first and foremost, have a new house built for us.
Pay off bills,
get two new vehicles
put money aside in something to draw good interest for all 3 kids.
Give at least 10% to Pager and IRD (sucking up)
Set up a good photography studio and have someone train me one on one. LOL LOL

Go visit Rach and stay for 6 months out of the year. :rolling:

This is something we think about several times a year, but even more so lately due to our finances.
Pay off and remodel our current home while building a new one
Pay off mom, dad, and sister's homes
Pay off medical bills and get Meredith's braces
Lasik eye surgery for myself and Nick
Buy everyone new vehicles
Buy all new furniture, wardrobes, electronics, etc.
Set aside money for college educations for our kids, nieces & nephews
Nick wants to own a men's clothing store called "Short and Stout"
I want to open a Baskin Robbins here in town LOL
Fly all the IRDers to a remote island for a week long convention
Travel around the world visiting all the relatives that live far away and meeting the online friends I've made over the years