Debt, Court, Health
Posted on | January 5, 2010 | 4 Comments
I’m finally getting a mini time out from wrangling up the boy and working nonstop. My body is beyond exhausted from all this, plus the surgeries. sheesh.
Jack is pretty much doing everything now except walking independently and it’s blowing my mind. It’s like one day he could hardly crawl all that well and that next he was crawling, climbing, standing and taking steps when holding on to surfaces. I think it was because of the exersaucer and jumperoo he received as early Christmas presents. They really seemed to up his confidence in standing/walking and built up strength in his legs. According to his doctor he’s very advanced for his age because he’s doing things typically a 9 month old would be doing. I’m so very proud, but it has it’s drawbacks as well. For one I hate that he’s impossible to change and bathe because he wants to move around so much which really frustrates me lately. Especially since more and more often he’s been getting up the back poops .. every parents nightmare.
For two, I get no sleep because I have to wake up about 50 times a night to check on him since he’s crawled off the bed more times than I’d like to count while we sleep. I’m giving up cosleeping now and purchased him a crib.
I was going to participate in Ms. Single Mama’s “New Year, New Leaf Challenge”. I wrote up a few things I want to change this upcoming year, but I never got the time to finish writing it all out so it’s sitting as a draft that I will probably post eventually even though I’m now too late to officially enter. Working more diligently is one of the things I want to do this year. I had to face it: I’m in debt. Ever since I had my boy I don’t really work much and everything I bought for him had to be charged. My credit cards have reached a balance of $3k in total. Which isn’t horrible compared to most people but that’s more than I want to owe anyone. I’ve cut them up and vow to live off cold cash or debit now.
To keep up with this vow, I had to empty out my savings account over the weekend to buy my son a bed. barricading no longer works because he can climb over anything. So now we have no savings it’s completely do or die in order to survive.
I hope by the summer to have the debt paid off and hopefully a little savings built back up.
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So I got noticed over the weekend that we finally have court with Daddy later this month. I don’t know how to feel about that. Part of me is happy to be moving forward in this child support case, the other part of me is nervous as hell to see him. It’s been over a year now and with all I’ve learned about him the past month. But I honestly don’t know how this would work out being that he’s in jail right now. He probably won’t even be there.
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One other thing I want to change is my cooking habits .. typically I don’t cook and I’m embarrassed to admit I still haven’t lost the baby weight. I bought a bunch of groceries and I’m going to cook them up and learn new recipes on the way. I’m putting myself on a low carb-ish diet because of how sedentary I am and I bought myself a Wii for Christmas that I will only buy interactive games for. I’m loving DDR!
Ok this is a start to my updates. I gotta run now to get things done while little man is sleeping.
Tags: cosleeping > financial struggles > postpartum fitness
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January 5th, 2010 @ 5:58 pm
hey gal… happy 2 hear u’ve recovered from the operation!!
Good luck with the rest… but don’t b too hard on yourself.
Cheerz
January 6th, 2010 @ 9:58 pm
Good luck with all and happy new year!
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January 10th, 2010 @ 2:26 pm
Good move on those credit cards. Things will get better – in a couple of years you’ll be in a much better position. I think you’re doing a great job.
January 19th, 2010 @ 5:59 pm
your little guy sounds just like mine!!! At 6 months he was doing the same thing. It is damn near impossible to change his diaper and clothing. Sometimes I have to have a second person to hold him while I change him. He is always on the go and sooooooo busy he can’t sit still. He actually flips and flops around and moves like crazy too.. He is only 9 months old and is jumping out of his crib.I had to buy a crib tent to keep him in there! oh dear, we are going to have our hands full once they are toddlers. Where am I gonna find the energy???
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