Money and Grown-Up Talk

Our lives have changed quite a bit in the past few months.  Steven lost his job with Papa John’s in October and at that point I was unemployed.  I had started my own Mary Kay business, but it wasn’t bringing in anything more than a little bit of spare money here and there.  We were scared out of our minds and didn’t know what we were going to do with no income.  It was a terrible experience, but it really makes you think about what the important things are in life.  We were thrown into a new schedule of being with each other 24/7 and being completely broke.  We were running extremely tight on money to start with due to the fact that I was not working…so this was quite the wakeup call.  We immediately began applying for jobs and in the beginning of November we both had some luck.  Steven found a job with Potomac Parking and is now the Parking Lot Manager for the Harrisonburg lot.  I landed a full-time nanny position on a teacher schedule along with a tutoring position with Tutor Doctor of Shenandoah Valley.  With both of us working and finding better employment we tripled our previous income…thus allowing us to finally catch up on old bills and to move closer to the adult world. 

I may still be disappointed with the fact that I am currently not “using” my degree, but it will always be there for me if I need it.  Right now my two jobs are perfect because of Noah and Steven’s job is so flexible that he can still attend school.  We are living in a wonderful duplex home and in hopes that we can stay there another year.  Unfortunately our landlord is thinking about putting the house on the market and we may not be able to renew our lease.  Other than that we have taken over car insurance, bought a car, and soon to take over our health insurance as well.  I know some people may shame us for not having our acts together when Noah was born, but we have been living on our own for quite some time now.  The only thing preventing us from tying the knot is the health insurance…but fortunately we are planning to get health insurance here in the next few weeks and are in high hopes to get married in the next year.  I know it is a bit of short planning, but we don’t need anything extravagant.  All we need is supporting people who love us to come to our wedding and show us that they care.  So…keep your fingers crossed that all works out and we can pull this all together here in the next few weeks to see if a wedding is even a possibility.