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e kondo on netflix it was something that we needed to see honestly both walley and i have the most possessions in the house my husband brandon did not bring a lot with him when he moved here from out east but has accumulated stuff and has a hard time getting rid of things we no longer use my roommate s room is packed massively so is the garage i can t even go in there it sets my ocd off big time so began the process of slowly but surely starting to declutter just not completely using the konmari method i love her folding methods the show helped get us in the frame of mind i ve continued to re evaluate things he s kinda fallen off the wagon but i m trying to help him get back on track as he has admitted he wants to get things handled i m trying not to sound nag some days it s really hard as i mentioned i m feeling the pull to start getting things ready for the baby im 17w3d weeks days now im basically at the halfway point for me since they have to do a c section around 35 37 weeks the craft room storage room guest room had been purged some and somewhat organized but it is definitely not in shape for a nursery there are some bins of crap old costumes stuff we said we d fix or mend but haven t etc there s a closet full of sca clothing surround sound equipment husband s brewing supplies my roommate makes some awesome mead when he takes the time to an old computer desk and chair that is also the roommate s and is slated to go curbside there s a twin bed taking up a bit of space and a three tiered shelf full of knick knacks and old porcelain dolls that i need to figure out what to do with people were asking if we had started a registry yet the pregnancy group i m in on fb was starting to flood with posts about different registries baby boxes questions and suggestions about what to get what to avoid so i jumped on the registry bandwagon then promptly had an anxiety attack there was so much stuff so much stuff so much expensive stuff i started to anxiety spiral about money about how with me not working we won t have enough for all this crap i sobbed how i ve ruined our lives and the baby s because we weren t going to be able to afford all this i legit cried then in a moment of logic and pragmatism i realized that we do not need to get all this stuff not only did we not need a lot of this stuff but the stuff we did need we may not need to actually purchase brand new or pay for at all that s when the rest of my brain calmed down and kicked back on when i vented online about this it led to some really great discussions about what was needed what my friends used that led to talks about things like cloth diapering and minimalist nurseries it was a huge relief to be reminded that i had another way to go and that i have a tribe and community even if we are scattered all over the map one of my friends i ve known since grade school set aside a few big priced items for me from her two kids the first time i was pregnant a stroller car base carseat toys it went on the backburner after our loss the car seat had to be recycled but we found that i should be able to get a compatible one online she lives up around chicago but her folks still live in the same town as mine so a transfer will eventually happen other friends who are married with kids are coming down from iowa for a visit and are going to try to bring down a playmat bouncer activity table and a nursing pillow they are no longer using my brother in law is looking at their crib to see if it is still usable another friend has offered a small assortment of cloth diapers from when their son was small others offered solidarity support and good advice i ve been reminded that baby showers happen but that s a whole other bag of anxiety for another day i then asked myself and my husband some important questions about how we wanted to handle things what kind of style i m a weird mix of lazy modern frugal and hippie he is all about free cheap or frugal but he also likes his conveniences we are interested in cloth diapers but intimidated so i started researching online we have no problem buying secondhand or using hand me downs for most things we are definitely on board with me breastfeeding if possible and pumping so that he can help with feedings i signed up for formula groups just in case we do not want to co sleep not knocking it though just not a thing we re interested in we re okay with a bassinet or crib in our room for a while especially since i ll be having a c section hell i d love to get a finnish baby box if could only afford it then move the crib to the nursery as they get older that s going to be a play by ear thing i have a feeling i ve got my eye on the local facebook groups and marketplace for deals on a dresser that can also be changing table and some baby carriers i want a good deal but also want it to look nice and last a while yeah i m aware that im walking a fine line there when we looked at all this it made the list of actual needs much smaller the registry started to get weeded down im mean there s still some more frivolous stuff hooded towels are completely adorable i started breathing a little easier then i realized i had some work to do so here we are now back to decluttering back to organizing because i need to rearrange both my bedroom and the spare room in preparation of this soon to be force of nature that s coming in 18 20 weeks any tips or suggestions are more than welcome posted by jederah at 4 28 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels anxiety baby cloth diapers finnish baby box frugal konmari method minimalist nesting nursery pregnancy tribe saturday june 29 2019 an unexpected housewife things happen i ve been gone far too long it s been a road through hell and high water when i last posted i was dealing with going back to college and working two jobs everything else fell off the map halfway through my last semester i got a job with a local healthcare system and i got pregnant i graduated with my associates degree i m the first in my immediate family to do so things were going pretty well sadly in january of 2018 things went to hell in a hand basket i went into labor at 17 weeks and lost our son come to find i had 2 softball sized fibroids and one baseball sized one and my uterus just couldn t stretch any more it was excruciating and i fell into depression coupled with ptsd from the induced labor i had to endure the following spring we went two hours north to st louis to have a laparoscopic surgery myomectomy to have them removed we had to wait 6 months before we could try again it took another six months after that to get pregnant in that year s span i got engaged i lost both my furbabies mina and isis changed jobs got married and i grew another fibroid it is tiny and watched like a hawk by my new local ob and my specialists in st louis i go about once a month i am almost 16 weeks along now i m a high risk pregnancy to begin with age diabetes pcos but because of my surgery i am not allowed to go full term or go through labor again i will have a scheduled c section somewhere between 35 and 37 weeks depending on how things progress it s been a hard pregnancy this time around extreme morning sickness hyperemesis still plagues me i ve lost 12 pounds but have managed to keep myself hydrated enough to avoid going to the er for iv fluids my anxiety is rearing its ugly head and exacerbates it i also have a lot of pain partly from it being my second pregnancy but partly because of scar tissue from my surgery the job i m currently at is extremely stressful for me i ve missed a lot of work which made my anxiety worse you get the idea my husband and i made the decision for me to leave my job so now here i am an unexpected housewife so buckle up folks as i try to buckle back down into a more frugal self sufficient lifestyle pull off the housewife thing and 3d print a tiny human posted by jederah at 9 42 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday september 15 2016 time flies when you re i thought i had posted since yule apparently that is not the case sorry i m still around i m off path though and trying to make my way back to a more sustainable health and self sufficient lifestyle here s the skinny replaced the broken oven fridge died was gifted a older fridge by a friends who had an extra second semester was brutal 15 credit hours but one class ended horribly with a d so i will have to retake it eventually my dad had a stroke in february my brother had a garage accident that massively damaged both his hands in april they are both doing better my brother moved out of state to be able to work got turned down for financial aid this year cashing out my 401k after the call center closed kinda screwed me i m still in the dislocated worker program so my tuition and books were covered i m still at school 12 credit hours and i work two jobs one for a well known sub shop that made all of us sign a social media clause so i cant put the name down and i also babysit a gorgeous 10 month old baby for some family friends i miss writing i haven t been keeping up with the blogs i love to read but i m trying to rectify that posted by jederah at 3 14 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday december 22 2015 homemade for the holidays winter check in it s winter solstice this is my yule log i haven t had a tree since bill moved out five years ago without the step kids and the step grand baby i just didn t have any incentive to decorate the first year or so three years back i lamented to brenna and sister zim that i wanted to decorate but was didn t have a tree didn t want a tree because the cat to human ratio increased and some of those cats are jerks i know some fluffy bastard would bring it down and break something they created the yule log they snuck it in to the house and i came home to find it it s now what i use in place of a tree it has holes drilled to put in tea lights it has owls it s very much me i was on the fence about whether or not i would decorate this year the weather has ranged from 40 70 f it doesn t feel like winter so it s hard to get into the mindset i finally had an inkling to do something for the holidays on the 21st so i got the log down and then dug up my old christmas decorations it was rough so rough it made me homesick it made me miss my late uncle scott who used to dress up as santa several of my snowmen in the picture above are from him i cried off and on the whole set up poor brandon came home in the middle of it and did his best to help me then he let me open a yule gift it s a bluetooth speaker with extra bass no more tinny music from my laptop or phone this is also the first year in almost a decade that i don t have a christmas bonus to go shopping with and that s been rough i know my friends and family don t care but i love gifting so it s homemade presents for most people i m mid process of making different things for people stuff i have learned through the sca has come in handy i ve made some rosewater and camphor perfumes and making some crocheted gifts also doing up some body washes and some candles probably most will get them late i ve been having some things getting in my way just some things im working on like my oven breaking the stovetop is fine but i can t bake a damn thing i have a crock pot and an electric skillet so we can cook to a point just not baking cookies desserts etc not that i should be eating a lot of baked goods but still aggravating after the holidays i m hoping to get the repair guys out and they will tell me if it s worth fixing or buying a newer one a newer used one finals are over and i finished my first semester of college with a 3 7 gpa next semester is going to be heavier credit hour wise the courses tougher and hopefully i will be working my unemployment will be running out soon i wont say where yet as it is not official my health has also been trying to spiral out of control on me my diabetes was not under control as well as they d like and they also found out that my vitamin d and my thyroid levels were low so now i ve cracked down and got it to a point where he decided against putting me on insulin now i just have to keep at it wish me luck posted by jederah at 2 29 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels family homemade gifts sca monday november 30 2015 post turkey day school and life have kept me away from writing sorry folks college is going ok im doing well in my classes and we are fast approaching the end of the semester so far im all a s and b s stuff on the homefront has been tight making my unemployment stretch has been an education in frugality extra money is being set aside for things like road trips in a jar i ve been using my ibotta app and saving up my rebates as well to use later a friend of mine just got me onto the walmart app with its savings catcher so far i am up to 6 and as i unfortunately shop walmart often i figure i might as well use it every penny counts next semester the credit hours are going to be higher and i need to pick up a job im not looking forward to it guess it s a good thing i dont have kids yet i m exhausted and there isnt much more i can think to tell you guys other than yes i am still here posted by jederah at 12 57 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday august 20 2015 end of august yeah i know it s been three months since my last post there wasn t a whole lot to tell i wasn t working but was paying bills with my severance package my shoulder was jacked up from the car wreck there was no garden this summer the insurance got worked out from the wreck and with it and what money i had left from my cash out from work i bought a used car im happy with it and it s paid off things that are happening now im enrolled full time in college classes started yesterday since i m considered a displaced worker there is a program offered to me pick an approved degree or certificate program from a list the program offers and they pay for it tuition books and mileage they are still processing my application however i qualified for pell and map grants so i could get started brenna and i are looking at a late summer garden to put cold weather crops in walley lost his job brandon is working temp jobs im out of severance money and finally went on unemployment life is stressful trying to keep a handle on it so far it s 50 50 depending on the day i know this is temporary i know that right now i just need to focus on school the rest will fall in place posted by jederah at 5 47 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest older posts home subscribe to posts atom subscribe to posts atom posts all comments atom all comments about me jederah desoto illinois united states i am a fortysomething pagan 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