the hub actually surprised me with a very thoughtful & pretty card & a big chrome heart full of chocolate. and dinner waiting on the table for when i got home. it was such a nice anniversary. no bootie, but still very nice! it's also the last anniversary where it's just us. so strange to think about now- with less than 3 months to go it's all getting so very very real!
the belly has officially popped & i am looking mighty preggo! i'll have to take my pic tomorrow & share- i am far too beat tonight. i had a long day at work & then have been wrapping my mind around some pretty heavy financial stuff. we are hoping to refi the house & pay stuff off & lower our monthly payments. which is good because i still don't know about maternity leave & now the hub is worried about losing his job since his new shop isn't doing so great. all a lot of stress in a very short amount of time. i just hope it ends up working out. best case scenario- we have $500 extra every month- that goes a long way towards daycare (almost 3 weeks worth). which means we can worry less about what to cut or how to make it work- since it just will. we also get a little 2 month break from paying the mortgage. which can do a lot of good! & hopefully the hub either gets a new, better paying job- or gets to stay at this one for at least the next year.
worst case scenario- we get $300 extra a month, but the hub is out of work & now those extra mortgage payments are going to float us until he gets a new job. which would suck. but i guess we'd just make it work somehow.
wish us luck.
it's been a tough but wonderful 4 years for us. a lot of changes have happened, some good, some bad, some wonderful, some scary. we've both grown up, but we're still the same goofy kids who fell in love over 13 years ago. here's my 2 favorite photos from our wedding- i think they sum us up perfectly.
4 comments:
Congrats on your anniversary! Lovely flowers from your parents, and it sounds like you got a nice surprise from the hubs.
Finances SUCK. We are currently trying to figure out how to keep me from having to get a job in this my LAST semester in school, the one semester where I really, REALLY must do well, thus the one time when I really, REALLY need to not work if at all possible. And it is possible, but January and February are going to SUCK while waiting for student loan stuff to come through. Sigh. I'm with you on trying to figure out how to afford things and how to balance needs and wants and everything... gosh. It just plain SUCKS.
And your wedding pics are adorable! What a pair of sweet, goofy kids!
4 years is a big hurdle, so congrats! It sounds like this will be one of the most exciting years of marriage yet :)
Congrats! Josh and I celebrated 4 years back in June. December made 5 years since our first date.
Good luck with all the financial stuff. It's always tough when there's so much up in the air.
awwww, congrats!!!!
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