I have broken my streak of weekly (or daily for a while) blogging but it's mostly because now that the holidays are over, I never feel like there's anything worth blogging about. Oh to have kids and have every day be an awfully big adventure!!!
Although Mark and I felt like we had a kid for a few weeks...except we skipped a baby and had a teenager! My gorgeous 17-year-old sister came to live with us for two weeks while our parents were both traveling in different foreign countries (Brazil and Guatemala) and since she was here so long, it actually felt like we had a child, haha. We ran the dishwasher double the amount of times we normally do, went through twice as much toilet paper (although that may be due to one of my New Years resolutions to drink 8 glasses of water a day...which I have actually been keeping since January 1st!!!), and basically just felt like we had a little family of 3 instead of 2. Not that we didn't enjoy having her here, it just made me realize how much the dynamic changes when you have a third person and how it's going to be after we have kids.
Anyone who knows me knows that all I think about lately is having a baby! I have been asking all my sisters-in-law about parenting book recommendations, the scoop on breastfeeding, finding the right doctor, and the list goes on and on. For Christmas I got 8 parenting/pregnancy books and I can't wait to start reading them! I'm not letting myself start one until we're at least trying though because I don't want to forget everything by the time the baby gets here. So if I am so excited and anxious and impatient to have a baby, why aren't we trying yet?
That is what I ask my husband every day. We have given ourselves a date to start trying and as much as I keep trying to push it up, he insists we need to wait because we are simply not ready to have a baby as soon as I would like. That is mostly due to living in Los Angeles where everything is outrageously expensive so we would like to have more money saved before we need to start buying everything for baby.
We are actually entertaining the idea of moving to Houston, Texas in the near future! My dad found a possible job opportunity for Mark within his company but then it fell through because H/R decided it wasn't fair because Mark would be indirectly working under my dad. We were so excited for the 24 hours it was a possibility though. Haha.
Both of us want to eventually end up in a small town, like Kingwood where my family lives. It's just so much more affordable down there! When we visited for our early Christmas, Mark and I were driving around looking at houses and the majority of houses were between $180-220!!! These were 3-4 bedroom, two story houses with pools and in gorgeous neighborhoods! Basically, those prices don't exist in Los Angeles. Here little 2 bedroom one story houses in the ghetto start at half a million dollars. It's insane! Mark's brother's family just bought a 3 bedroom home in Studio City that is beautiful but about the same size as my parent's house in Texas for nearly 1,000,0000!!!!! My parent's 4 bedroom home with a pool cost around $230!!!! Hahhaa it just makes me laugh it's so outrageous. So basically, unless Mark becomes a millionaire this year there is no way we could ever afford to buy a home out here and I do not dream of raising a family in an apartment so at some point, we WILL be moving! Until then, we will just have to suffer out here living in Los Angeles, haha. Okay, so it's not all that bad, especially now while we have no kids or really any responsibilities. We got annual Disney passes this year so we are excited to be using those!! We went with my sister last Saturday and we are going again this Saturday to California Adventure because Mark has NEVER BEEN THERE!!! OMG it's going to be so fun and exciting!!!
Hopefully I will remember to take pictures but I am making no promises. TTFN (Ta Ta For Now!)
