Buying the Baby

Mo and I are richly blessed. We have enough to pay our bills, reduce our debt at a reasonable clip, and still enjoy the benefits of our income. We work hard to control our money, but we are doing far better than we deserve.

So when we were driving to the second blood test I knew (KNEW) that when it was positive again we would drive directly to babies R us and hemorrhage money like BP oil pipe (too soon?).

But ya know what? Didn't happen. We went to Babies R Us. We've been to damn near every baby store and few consignment stores. Know what we bought? Well, at the Goodwill today we bought a pair of shelves for $5.40.

And that's all.

Seriously.

The cool thing is we kinda have some of the big stuff covered. My sister is donating her crib (awesome). I think I am going to ask my dad to stain it to match the bedding system I have from when I was a kid. The desk from that system (if you remove the optional light shelf) should work remarkably well as a changing table. The chester drawers will hold toys, clothes, and who knows what all else.

There are some things we won't buy till we have a better idea of the "Twins/no Twins" question. Things like a stroller and car seat or swing.

I suppose the uncertainty factor is still messing with us. We don't know if it is twins, we don't know genders, even if it is twins now that doesn't mean that both will deliver. But really, ignoring all that, I think I know the major reason we haven't jumped into the buying stuff yet.


We still can't believe it's actually happening.