Sunday, September 21, 2008

You Can Eat Out Or You Can Have a Baby

The title of this post is a quote from my husband!!! :) Believe it or not!


Context:
My husband and I have been talking about having a baby. We've been married four and a half years and we both just graduated in May of 2007 from college. Basically, I have been begging him for a baby, but like most men he is scared to have a baby. He's afraid it will either make him "uncool," old, or fall terribly, terribly into debt.



* He's very very terrified of being in debt, which I might add is not a bad fear to have.



Anyway, one day I was once again trying to convince my dear husband that we needed a little Seth Jr to which he once again replied in financial talk. Basically, he said that we needed a certain amount of savings before we could think of having a baby. Now, I will say that I absolutely agree that financially, we're not ready for a baby. And I do agree that it will be much easier for me to take time from work and possible cut my hours completely if we had more in savings, so I applaud my dear husband for his financial goals! :) However, when I see my friend's babies, I don't really care about dollar signs - I just want a baby now, dang it! Okay, calm down....



So, Seth and I talked for several minutes about our financial plan and became excited about "living like we're poor" so we can have a baby and the more we save, the sooner we can have a baby. Then, Seth mentioned that at work I tend to go out to eat pretty often. After agreeing, I said, "Well, just say no to fast food. Except every once in a while, cause it's fun."



"No, no, no. We need to save EVERYTHING. So, basically, you can eat out....or you can have a baby."



"I think I'll take the baby," I said.



And with that....we went grocery shopping. But that shopping list is for another blog!

5 comments:

Hannah said...

I'm all for another niece or nephew!!





So long as you do it AFTER my wedding!!! I need us looking like twins that day! (well, other than the fact that I'll be wearing white and you'll be wearing black lol)

The Great Church Adventure said...

OK you know I love to read your hilarious posts. But when you told me about this at your house I thought I would die laughing. Later I talked to Chad about it and all he could say was "silly Seth...Sarah is 10 times more disciplined than him and she wants a baby way to bad for him to think that is a deterrent!" I think my hubby is right...lunchables or not Sarah is going to get herself a baby.

Rachel said...

LOL -- tell Seth that you get a lot of free stuff when you have a baby. Maybe that will work.

By the way, I have your layout code ready whenever you want it.

Hannah said...

I tagged you in my blog!!

http://hannahnoelh.blogspot.com/2008/09/tag-im-it.html

DO IT!!!

Rachel said...

By the way - I have an award for you on my blog!