Crunching the Numbers

     So tomorrow is the big day, we will find out the gender of our baby!!! I sure hope that he/she doesn't decide to be shy tomorrow. Last time we saw our little wiggler it was only about the size of a gummy bear and it didn't look like a baby, now its baby shaped and everything! I am glad that we have plans tonight otherwise I would go crazy waiting around for the appointment.
    In other developments, after Ted and I have been crunching numbers we have decided that rather than paying for day care, that Ted is going to stay home with our little one. We will still need him to work part-time but his job is very flexible so he can do that around my schedule so that we won't have child care costs.
     It definitely won't be an easy adjustment because we will have to scale back on a lot of things, but it was going to take half of Ted's income to pay for childcare any way. We just figured it seemed silly to have him work those extra 20 hours per week just so that we can pay for childcare. Of course there will still be times we still need a sitter, if we want to go out or have things planned for the day but we have wonderful friends here in town who are willing to help us out!
     This will not necessarily be a permanent change, because as our baby gets older the cost of daycare will be less once it's not an infant and Ted might want to go back to working full time, but for now this is what makes sense to us. Sure we will have to cut back on some of the things that we want, we won't be able to go on a date every week, we are cancelling our cable, i will have to be more diligent about couponing to save on groceries and we will actually have to budget rather than just spending money with out thinking. To me these are good sacrifices, and it will show us what is really important. I am just glad that we are in a position that we can do this, and that I have such a wonderful husband that is not only willing to do this but looking forward to all of the time he will have with our child!
Gosh I can't wait until we can actually call the baby he or she, I am getting tired of saying IT!