Big Ole Update....It's about time :)

I am starting this blogging thing again, so that as I am trying to successfully save money(and make the standard of living in my home be similar to what it was while I was working full time) maybe something here can help someone else in the same situation.

The last post was in August of 2008. I got pregnant (SURPRISE!!) in October 2008. We had all but given up hope of ever having children, so needless to say this was an answer to many prayers from God. I continued to work thru the month of November, until I started bleeding and was put on bedrest for about the next 2 months. I went back to this job part time from January til April, when my boss decided that I was not the employee she thought I should be (read: pregnant and wanting to make me quit so she could replace me) so I obliged her and quit. My son was born by emergency c-section at the end of June, at 37 weeks. Since then, I have been what I have always dreamed of being: a stay at home mama! I have never been happier, but I will admit, our finances are ZILCH. We have debt from a car that we bought when I was still working full time, and of course the house and other things......But I desperately, more than anything, want to continue to stay home with my son (and hopefully any others that I could have, but my husband says no due to our money situation) until he is in school. I am going to use this blog as a tool to help others as I learn things, so that other mamas who are wanting to stay home with their children can. When I make a mistake, or something doesn't work for me, then I hopefully have saved you a lot of either time, money, heartache, or all three. I will post more tomorrow, as I am tired and going to bed....Until tomorrow :)

Quickly, I will tell you some of the things I am doing that I will be discussing in later blogs:

*cloth diapers and mama pads
*making all my cleaning stuff and laundry stuff homemade
*no more running the dishwasher; only using dryer when absolutely necessary
*making as much of our food homemade (bread, pasta, sauces, etc)
*utilizing free stuff whenever I can find it!