I feel like I have had next to no time at all this week and I can’t believe our son is 8 days old! How the time flies by…
Wednesday I should be back into action in regards to posting, and I have got a cracker for you around how much it costs to have a baby. I thought this would be an interesting post as most articles on the net don’t go into intricate details on the items and costs involved. As I track every dollar that my wife and I spend, I thought it would be a good opportunity to actually work out the individual costs associated with having your first baby and then I could share it with everyone.
I am starting to handle the lack of sleep a little better at the moment, which is good. I have found myself sitting up early in the morning with Nicholas trying to get him to sleep while I catch up on a few TV shows I have been wanting to watch.
Posts This Week
This week I had 2 posts this week
- The first was a post titled The Cheapest, Easiest and Best ways to learn a Language in 2013
- The second post was a great guest post by Kim titled Financial Plans to Make Before Marriage. Thanks for helping me out this week Kim
Welcome to the Pool Room
Time for the Pool Room!
In case you don’t know what the pool room is, I explain it in this post.
2nd place this week goes to Ready For Zero with Do Your Loved Ones Understand Your Career Priorities? I feel as if this post really struck home with me as I never felt like I could ever make the correct decisions to please my Dad when I was younger. Fortunately my wife supports me in all aspects of my life and career (with the exception of Cricket and Fishing, both of which she hates).
3rd place was a post over at Money Life & More with Four Ways to Split Expenses at Home. I have never had to live with anyone other than my family and my wife, so I have never had to really experience the difficulties with living with others. My wife used to live with a friend of hers for a while and just visiting her while she was living with her friend was enough for me to decide that I needed to be very careful who I moved in with.
Congratulations to this weeks winners – I hope everyone enjoys the posts mentioned above as much as I did.
For next week – If you think you have a top post and you want to make sure I see it, be sure to leave a comment somewhere on my blog and include the link in the Comment Luv section. I make sure I check every blog owners page if they have left a comment on my blog, so that’s a sure fire way to ensure I see your blog post.
Our little one turns 1 next Saturday…time certainly does fly by! Looking forward to your post on Wednesday.
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I’ll be curious to see how much you’ve spent in the first 8 days (and leading up to it?).
Have a great weekend and try to sit back and enjoy the moment while it’s still here! 1 year will go by and you won’t even know what happened.
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Hey Glen: Congratulations on the most amazing event in one’s life. My son is 30 and my daughter 27 so I cannot believe how fast this time goes. Enjoy your child always and forever!
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How fun and exhausting! I don’t know what programming you have in Australia, but when my daughter was brand new, I used to watch Nick at Night. They had old sitcom reruns like The Cosby Show, Roseanne, and The Fresh Prince. I’d never sit up on purpose to watch, but I had the schedule down form about 2-4 AM when we were usually up. Can’t wait to see your cost breakdown. I hope you took everything from the hospital. Their booger sucker thing was the best one I ever found. When I accidentally melted ours, I went back to the hospital and asked for another one, and they gave it to me! I’m sure they’ve seen it all.
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Happy weekoversary to Nicholas
!! And thank you very much for the mention. Can’t wait to have a peek at the costs. My friends from Sydney went back to France to have the baby, and even though the father had to fly at the last minute when the baby came early it was still cheaper than having it in Australia.
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I thankfully do not have to worry about splitting expenses either. Living with my wife, we have one bank account and we are both on the same “team” as far as finances go.
I did have roommates in the past and it is very easy to split expenses. We just split up the energy, utility, and internet bills by the # of roommates. Pretty straightforward.
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I t was a year and a half for our little squirt, yesterday, in fact. Time just zips by with children. Soon Nicky will be trying to roll over, can you believe that? Oh, and how is the Rickster adjusting to the new little guy?
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Life sounds interesting at your house as you adjust to your new baby. Hope you guys can get some rest too.
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Thanks for the mention! Ugh I’ve been so busy lately and feel bad for coming by so late on this but I really do appreciate it.
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Glad to hear you are handling the lack of sleep better. I am still struggling to get it together. My son is going to be one month old on Sunday. The time has flown by.
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Don’t worry about what an 8 day old child costs to bring into this world. Wait till you have 3 in college then come to me and say things cost a lot.
Congrats on the kid!! Nothing better than that. And way to go with the posts in the midst of all the nuttiness!
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