It seemed like it would take forever to get to this point. I'm half way through the pregnancy now. Morning sickness is finally dying down. I thought I first felt the baby move one the first day of week 15 but after reflecting on it I think that was just a minor muscle spasm, since the baby was clearly not in that area of my belly, actually the baby still isn't in that area of my belly. It doesn't really matter anyway because I actually felt the baby kick and move around one week later and pretty much every day since then. Morning sickness aside, I really do like being pregnant. A good part of it could be the awesome clothes I now get to wear. In my opinion every woman should have a pair of pregnancy pants for holidays, or maybe just for dinner time, haha.
A note on saving money.
I don't work outside the home. I try to keep up the house and all those menial chores that come with it. I think my husband's family thinks I should be out getting a job and working until the baby gets here, after all that's what my mother-in-law did. Every once in a while I ask my husband if he would like me to get a job and he says no. For us, especially since we only have one car, it would be best if I stayed home and figured out how to save us money than go out and get a job that would require me to get a car and insurance... (which would pretty much be my pay check anyway). So, I should cut to the chase already, these are some of the ways I hope to help us save money:
Cloth diapers (I hope to make most of them myself)
Family cloth (pretty much just for me and when going #1)
Cloth napkins, tissue, etc (I'd like to eliminate as much disposable product usage as I can)
Make/bake most of our food Grow most of our grow-able food (this is more of a long term goal)
Clipping coupons (I've tried it before and I think I finally understand how to use them to their fullest potential)
Cutting back on the paper/disposable products alone would save us over $500 a year.
Ya know, I am finding that with time I seem to be getting more and more
crunchy. I'm not sure what the driving force is for me, is it environmental, my dislike for most things modern, or is it simply because I'm cheap. I'm not sure.
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I'm still working on using sales and coupons to their fullest potential...we always need to go grocery shopping right before the sales start... I love the idea of shopping at a place like Costco, but with only 2 of us in the house, it really is not worth it (my husband and I both comes from families with at least 3 kids, so both sets of parents always bought in bulk), we are trying to fight the habit of buying food in bulk...
Ooo, I should also add another thing I heard the other day that should save us money and be better for the environment. Buy liquid fabric softener, spray some on a clean rag and put that in your dryer instead of a disposable dryer sheet.
I don't think all of your husband's family thinks you should get a job while you're pregnant...just so you know. ;)