Budget blahs and busy bees.
Toddlers, it turns out, are a much more time-consuming business than babies. Even when the toddler isn't quite to the actual toddling stage yet. Who knew? (Well, fine, anyone who has ever had them around. But there should still be some sort of advanced warning system. Maybe air raid sirens.)We did, as I feared when I started working again, fall back into the old trap of failing to budget. Did I mention that? I probably did. It's easy to know better, hard to actually put that knowledge to good use. Cooking happens more rarely than it ought to, and while we're better at bringing our lunch to work than we were way back in the days Before Baby, it's still not happening every single day.
And, honestly, if we weren't paying so much for daycare, we'd be doing just fine. I mean, we're paying a new compact car a year for care. One of the nice ones. With actual options. We're not talking base model Kia here. Sadly, we're still at least a year and a half away from a slot in our preferred (cheaper and on campus) daycare.
We're not doing horribly, but we're not stashing anything into savings, and we really need to be doing that.
I keep saying we need to sit down and draw something up, but we've been too busy/tired/sick over the last month to do it.
Sigh.
This turning into a toddler thing is happening so quickly. More words, more will, and mood swings that leave a body with whiplash.
Right now, she's tearing Puffs Plus with Lotion into tiny pieces and protesting my refusal to let her eat the power cable for my laptop. She has what looks like a small army of molars invading her mouth, and the constant pain appears to be pushing any tantrum up to 11. I keep reminding myself that she has a finite number of teeth.
posted by mohmlet @ 8:23 PM
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