Yesterday I got the best text from Johnny. It said, “We owe $0 on the epidural!” That text confirmed what we had hoped against hope would be true: having Baby Girl had cost us $0 in hospital bills. The Backstory Last July, Johnny and I were contemplating moving away from…
In the Baby Bucks series, we discuss financial topics where baby and buck collide. The dollar kind, not the animal kind. Got it? If you haven’t already heard, we had our freaking baby! I’ll probably continue to lead every post that way, because it makes my heart skip a beat…
All three of us are home and happy and healthy. We’re all pretty exhausted, but loving our new life together. Around here, we’ll just call her Baby Girl. This was actually the name printed on her ID bracelets because her mommy and daddy needed some time to try on some…
It’s official: our nursery is completed. Baby, you are now welcome to come whenever you darn well please. Any woman who’s been pregnant (or any man who’s had a pregnant wife or girlfriend) knows that moms-to-be take baby preparation very seriously. I’ve wanted everything to be perfect. No, it’s more…
Leading up to Baby Girl’s arrival, money’s been making a mass exodus from our wallets. And it may slow, but it ain’t gonna stop once baby arrives, either. One of our biggest new expenses in the upcoming months will be diapers. It’s bad enough knowing we’ll be changing about 7,000…