Day 2

So, I’m trying to figure out how to get pictures off my camera to make my little project here more interesting. Inexplicably, my laptop doesn’t have an SD slot, and this is how we’ve always downloaded our pictures. I don’t even think we have a cord. So, hmm. I’ll figure it out.

Today was an okay day. I have been totally lazy this weekend. I am at the point in pregnancy — I have been for awhile — where I feel completely and totally exhausted by almost everything I do. A week of work practically wipes me out (although not nearly as much as it did when I was teaching… props to teachers). I pretty much have to spend all day Saturday recovering. Then, I only have one weekend day, which is just depressing because I almost certainly have to spend it doing all the crappy household things I haven’t been able to do all week… pay bills, pick up, blah blah blah.

I did note today that I may have been wrong in my assessment that children are not, necessarily, expensive. I have always thought it was weird that people think this. I mean, if you *buy* your kids a lot of shit (they don’t need), then, yes, it’s expensive. But if you don’t, they pretty much go with the cheap flow. We almost never buy our kids toys… or even clothes (that’s what people like to give as gifts). And yes, of course it’s expensive to put kids through college… I shudder to think what it’ll cost when it’s time to put four of them through, if they so choose that path. But we’ll get through, just like my lower middle class parents did when they put me through Bard. Shudder. Shudder shudder shudder. Loans were the name of the game, and they probably will be for us when our kids get to be that age.

But. Today. For breakfast, Kieran ate two bean and cheese burritos and two bowls of cereal. I think I may need to revise my expectations of simple living costs for four children in one house. In a little over 10 years, we should have three boys, ages 18, 12, and 10, and one girl, age 15, in the house. All eating and borrowing cars and needing money for gas and car insurance. Being dangerous and engaging in debauchery. Kinda makes me vomit in my mouth a little bit.