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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Re: QOTD Wednesday (2012)
1. TTC #3, hopefully with a BFP sooner rather than later.
2. If TTC doesn't work out, run another marathon or at least a half marathon.
3. Also if TTC doesn't work out, lose another 10-15 pounds.
3. Increase our savings so we have more of a cushion when DH's political appointment runs out in 2012 in case he doesn't find another job right away.
4. Take a vacation with DH and at least one family vacation.
I'm kind of embarrassed to post these because some are such "duh" things that a real grown up (especially a parent) should already do, but here goes:
-Get a will
-Get real life insurance (beyond the one year of salary kind we have through work)
-Find myself a PCP
-Take care of all the piddly sh!t around the house that bugs me and really get it prepped for rental
-Hopefully, upgrade to house #2 but I've been saying that for awhile now, so it's kind of lost its impact . . .
Thank you. I'm ready, but we decided to wait till this summer to TTC for purely terrible reasons, I want maternity leave when it's warm out and so I can pull DS from DCP before preschool starts in the fall and have DD skip summer camp. The finances are so scary for daycare - I have no idea how you do it - thank god it will only be for a year before DD goes to kindergarten and the $$ reprieve begins.
1. Lose these last 7 lbs, finally!
2. Pay off all or most of our credit card debt
4. Take a big trip with just me and DH (haven't since our honeymoon)
3. Go off birth control (!)
4. Run the Cherry Blossom 10-miler in the Spring, and maybe another 1/2 marathon in the fall (depending on how #3 goes...)
-Get a Wii Fit and exercise 3-4 days/week
-Go on a cruise with DH
-Start TTC (this is more like my hope, because we won't be able to unless DH gets a permanent job and we get a decent health insurance plan)
-Finish my quilt (already been working on it for 2 years! yikes!)
-Move to a bigger apartment
-Start a grad program
-And last and least likely of all, quit my job. I'm not very happy there, and it's not even full-time. My dream is to be a SAHW/M, but it won't happen unless DH can get a better job.
Late to this game, I've been out of town. Anyway:
TTC #2: BFP 12/17/11, m/c 1/7/12 and D&C 1/12/12
baby blog/cooking blog
My biggest hope/goal is that we can get our financial house in order so we can decide if we're going to be child-free or TTC in 2013 (realistically, we need a year of good, solid savings before we do).
I also would like to get back to running, or at least walking, now that I am rehabbed from my back/hamstring issue of the summer and get confident enough with riding a bike to ride with DH.
This is great! I actually looked into this, too. I think if I was asked one of those "what would you do if you could have any job in the world"-type questions, this would be my answer. You'd be a great LC!
TTC #2: BFP 12/17/11, m/c 1/7/12 and D&C 1/12/12
baby blog/cooking blog
Thank you! I kind of figured out a timeline and it will take at least 4-5 years probably. Yikes! But I decided to start out with the academic classes to see if I can even get through them, and then I'll work on the rest.
To sell our current place and buy a new place tops the list.
For DHs health to improve. He is doing everything right and keeping a good attitude so I hope it pays off in 2012.
Not really a goal but looking forward to traveling again. We have two vacations planned and I am so excited :-)