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Published On: Sep 08, 2007 11:33 PM
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Published On: Sep 08, 2007 11:33 PM
In other news.....
Ranger
* The biggest news is the mutual decision to have
Dave (E's best friend, currently flying back to Guatemala for another 3 months)
move in with us. It will be temporary, but I know E and he will have a blast,
he'll be so much help with farm stuff, and we get along really well, so that's
all good. He's starting a PhD program in September, but coming back to the
states in April so... one of the little rooms up here (Adam's un-used office)
will be reinstated as a bedroom. It's tiny, but that's by middle class US
standards, and Dave is certainly coming from a much more spartan space! It will
be very fun to have the copacetic company. AND he's working at the historic farm
so he can bring home lots of fresh milk (oooh, I can make butter - yay!), any
eggs if we need them, and veggies from their gardens (just an oh so subtle hint
:) !
* Questions/responses to a few posts ago, mostly regarding babies. :) We ARE so close, I know that - and I know that's why it's especially frustrating. I plan to teach as long as I can do it comfortably (physically that is). It really depends on the course my pregnancy takes when and if it happens. I'm thinking we'll start trying once E is confident he's staying at his new job for awhile, maybe September-ish, and then I'll work till I feel like it's time to leave. We are both hoping that once E finds a decent job, I won't HAVE to work - we know we can live on one modest income, and are perfectly comfortable with that, and I'm not doing something I really love, so if I could do something that I love more but that paid less, well, we'd all be better off.
So, hopefully, I'll only "have" to work till the end of this year - the 17th of June. I don't mind the school I'm at, and will probably stay on till the time is right, but it will be easier when it's more of a voluntary decision instead of one E and I both feel sort of forced into. If we do get pregnant this fall, I'd like to just use nursing as BC from then on and have the kids (when we plan it's four, maybe another one or two adopted- we want a big family) pretty close together. It's what my grandma did, and I think it's right for our family.
My main worry about leaving my job is the loss of my good, state health insurance that covers all of us. But with E's reassurances I'm slowly letting go off my vice grip on that issue. My dad has always been a self employed musician, and my mom has brought in the insurance (as well as the steady income and pension), so she has always drilled it into my brain that it was my responsibility to keep my family insured, and that if I didn't, god knows who would. (visions of my children hobbling down the alleyway) But I know E will have insurance with his job. So I still worry. But less. :) Thanks for all the support, mamas.
* E is a bee keeping maniac - he brought home a pile of books from the library and has been researching furiously. I'm glad he's so excited.
* I'm paying off the majority of a major loan tonight - hooray! We're far from debt free, but easing the burden this much is SUCH a relief, and a blessing!
* The hair will be rethought. There is too much stuff on the back - N, the hair lady next door, convinced me to go with this flippy thing, but now the flip is growing and out becoming a fluffy creature which is unwanted round these parts. So new haircut.
* No seed catalogs yet - come on! Let's go - I have garden planning to do! And didn't E promise me one more raised bed frame before he goes back to school? So far, my gardening goals are more, and less wormy, sweet corn (although I haven't researched how to do that organically), enough tomatoes so that I can can them to keep us through the winter, enough basil to make a winter's worth of freezer pesto, and sweet potatoes, yellow potatoes, onions, and carrots (I'm going to try seed tape this year) to put in the root cellar. Of course, I'll grow some of everything else too, but that's what I'm measuring "success" by this year.
* Questions/responses to a few posts ago, mostly regarding babies. :) We ARE so close, I know that - and I know that's why it's especially frustrating. I plan to teach as long as I can do it comfortably (physically that is). It really depends on the course my pregnancy takes when and if it happens. I'm thinking we'll start trying once E is confident he's staying at his new job for awhile, maybe September-ish, and then I'll work till I feel like it's time to leave. We are both hoping that once E finds a decent job, I won't HAVE to work - we know we can live on one modest income, and are perfectly comfortable with that, and I'm not doing something I really love, so if I could do something that I love more but that paid less, well, we'd all be better off.
So, hopefully, I'll only "have" to work till the end of this year - the 17th of June. I don't mind the school I'm at, and will probably stay on till the time is right, but it will be easier when it's more of a voluntary decision instead of one E and I both feel sort of forced into. If we do get pregnant this fall, I'd like to just use nursing as BC from then on and have the kids (when we plan it's four, maybe another one or two adopted- we want a big family) pretty close together. It's what my grandma did, and I think it's right for our family.
My main worry about leaving my job is the loss of my good, state health insurance that covers all of us. But with E's reassurances I'm slowly letting go off my vice grip on that issue. My dad has always been a self employed musician, and my mom has brought in the insurance (as well as the steady income and pension), so she has always drilled it into my brain that it was my responsibility to keep my family insured, and that if I didn't, god knows who would. (visions of my children hobbling down the alleyway) But I know E will have insurance with his job. So I still worry. But less. :) Thanks for all the support, mamas.
* E is a bee keeping maniac - he brought home a pile of books from the library and has been researching furiously. I'm glad he's so excited.
* I'm paying off the majority of a major loan tonight - hooray! We're far from debt free, but easing the burden this much is SUCH a relief, and a blessing!
* The hair will be rethought. There is too much stuff on the back - N, the hair lady next door, convinced me to go with this flippy thing, but now the flip is growing and out becoming a fluffy creature which is unwanted round these parts. So new haircut.
* No seed catalogs yet - come on! Let's go - I have garden planning to do! And didn't E promise me one more raised bed frame before he goes back to school? So far, my gardening goals are more, and less wormy, sweet corn (although I haven't researched how to do that organically), enough tomatoes so that I can can them to keep us through the winter, enough basil to make a winter's worth of freezer pesto, and sweet potatoes, yellow potatoes, onions, and carrots (I'm going to try seed tape this year) to put in the root cellar. Of course, I'll grow some of everything else too, but that's what I'm measuring "success" by this year.
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Posted: Thu - January 8, 2004 at 11:08 PM