Brides on the cost-cutting edge - Communities - Kentucky.com

Brides on the cost-cutting edge - Communities - Kentucky.com

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Everything at my wedding was homemade. In my opinion is it absolutely ridiculous to spend thousands and thousands of dollars on your wedding. Half of them don't even last these days haha. My wedding was beautiful, my dress may have cost too much but that was all that was expensive. My crafty mom made my cake, made my bridesmaid dresses and it looked like a wedding that cost thousands. Weddings do not have to be outrageous to be perfect!

FAT

I am hoping that I can drop this excessive baby weight this summer. I had Annabelle 4.5 months ago and there is still around 10+ lbs hanging on. I am breast feeding and have read conflicting things regarding weight and bfing. Some say you "should" expect to lose the weight faster when bfing while other books say you will not lose it until after you have stopped due to your body needing that fat. I was not a small thing to being with but I had been going to the gym everyday and getting more toned. When I gave birth I weighed over 100 lbs more than I did in high school. Can you believe that? To me it is unbelievable. Of course I was carrying a very large baby and had lots and lots of fluid. If you didn't see my ankles before I gave birth you really missed out. The books all said to be prepared to look about 5 or 6 months pregnant when you leave the hospital after the birth of your baby. I thought "alright, I can handle that, I didn't even look pregnant then." The books were wrong, (again!), I probably looked 8 months pregnant when I left and now still look more pregnant than I did at 5-6 months. In many ways it is funny. Annabelle was worth every pound that I added and can't get off. But I would really like for my pants to fit again, I paid a lot of money for some of them lol. I can get in one pair of old jeans even if they were too big before I will still take that as an accomplishment. I am giving myself 4.5 more months to get rid of it before I take drastic measures. And by drastic I mean dieting. I don't over eat now, but my prenatals do make me very hungry. I am in no hurry to end bfing but am curious to see what my body is going to do when that happens. My luck I will gain about 20 lbs...that happens I'm getting lipo.

Life

My life is great even though I am very upset over going back to work. Jason has been very good about the whole emotional wreck thing this week. He knows how much it would mean to me to move back closer to my family. It wasn't until four years ago, when my uncle died, that I realized people are not here forever and I need to spend as much time with them as possible. That is a little hard to do an hour and half away. We looked into moving back then but Jason's company offered him more money and it is hard to turn more money down so we stayed. Now since Annabelle is here all I want to do is move back...also to quit work, but that is another story :)

The opportunity for us to move back may have presented itself. Which was simple enough and then it got complicated. There are a few things that we have to think about and decide. He has found this job closer to home and the very next day learns he may get a pretty good promotion. Neither of these things are bad....pretty much going to be hard to turn down a promotion, especially if it means I can stay home for awhile. There are things that we must find out before we can really sit down and make any decisions. It is very possible that we will be moving in the next 6 months to a year. It is a little bit exciting right now and a whole lot scary. The economy is not in a good place and making drastic changes may not be the best idea.

Bail me out

I am tired of the bailouts, they need to stop...actually they never should have started! I am tired of people not being held responsible for their actions. Of course I know that some people lost their jobs and are now losing their homes at no fault of their own but what about those other irresponsible people who bought houses, put stuff on credit cards, etc that they knew they could not afford. Jason and I are very responsible with our money and why should someone down the street who spends all their money on junk receive help while we pay our bills every single month. I am proud that we are able to do that and save money at the same time. It just looks like the way to get ahead in life at this point is to quit our job, stop making payments on our house...we can then live off of the government! Free food, free medical and a free house?? I do not know all of the ins and outs of the foreclosure bail out but I am still aggravated. I am frustrated! If you are going to reward people reward the ones who are doing the right thing, the way that it is supposed to be done. Actually how about not rewarding anyone at all!

Disgusted

I have watched a lot of ESPN since I had Annabelle. It is the only thing I can tolerate at 3 am while I am feeding her even if it is the 39th time I have watched that particular sports center. While I was in the hospital the Yankees were negotiating that pitchers contract for all those millions. The same day CNN was reporting 2 different companies having lay offs. It was sickening that this guy is going to have more money than he can ever spend for playing a sport while these people may lose everything. Since then they have signed another dude for all that money. What are the Yankees going to do when they have built this new stadium, paid out all their money for these players but their fans are all layed off and can't afford to come to the games.

I think I just get a little angry that these people have so much and some of them just blow it. I am pretty much fed up with professional sports, the NBA players all have nasty looking tattoos all over their bodies and the football players can't stay out of trouble. I am a fan of tattoos but geez, not if they are disgusting. I know there are a lot of nice respectable athletes but seems like more and more thugs are making their way in.

It is scary times we live in - hopefully the economy will recover. I just thought it a little much that this is made such big news while there are people who are losing everthing. I do not have much sympathy for people who bought houses that they knew they could not afford, but I have much empathy for those who were able to make it and make it comfortably until things out of their control happened.