My baby girl is one. O-N-E!? How did that happen? Where did that first year go? How much of her first year did I miss? Why are we no closer to me staying at home?
I met my wonderful husband at the young age of 32… quick 3 years ago. At that point in my life, I had almost given up hope on my dream of having a family. I knew in my heart that if I was ever blessed with a husband and then baby, that I wanted to be the one who was there to raise him/her. I didn’t want to miss any precious moments and, honestly, work/career just wasn’t that important to me. Fast forward three years and we are happily married for almost 2 years and have a 1year old baby girl! God is so good!
Since it took me longer than some to get here, I spent my pre married years getting my college degree, starting my career, battling thyroid cancer and collecting debts along the way. Credit cards, student loans, medical bills… they started building while I lived in the now without a thought for the future. I had debts, but I had a job to support them so it was ok. Right? Wrong.
When we were blessed with the news of our baby girl, we could hardly contain our excitement! We both had hopes of me staying home to raise her but reality set in when we sat down to crunch numbers. Because of past bad/hasty decisions on both our parts and our current debt load, I needed to work. At the end of my maternity leave, I went back to work part time (30 hours/week) and have spent every spare minute dreaming of ways to make staying home with our daughter work for our family.
We created a budget and a snowball plan to tackle our debts but it seemed that our goals kept getting pushed back. To be completely honest, we had a budget but it was only on paper. We didn't live it. We didn't change our spending habits. We didn't change so our situation didn't change.
This is the start of our journey to make those changes and to make our dream of me being a stay at home mommy a reality.
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