The oven is broken–this discovered after a lovely natural gas smell filled the house. Exactly what you want with an infant around, right? Repair person can’t come till tomorrow morning, and I am certainly not sticking my head in the oven to see what’s what, even if I know how to turn off the gas and take things apart.
I took pictures of an adorable baby grunting her way through “tummy time,” only to have the memory card crap out on me and claim to not exist.
We got a bill from Nuala’s first pediatrician visit claiming she wasn’t covered by our insurance, followed by the first bill from the OB (this on top of what we paid in advance), soon to be followed by the hospital bill (your guess is as good as mine as to the amount). Viva la private health insurance, where you never know what or how much will be covered!
Spouse has to take a class this summer to fulfill some professional requirements, three hours in the evening, two days a week.
We need to buy a second car some time before the end of July, as I don’t think I’m supposed to be carting around a two-month-old infant in a bike trailer that I don’t have.
And because I’m on a 9-month stipend, I am without a paycheck until the end of August, leaving us to draw on savings to squeak by until then. Given recent events, it is less of a squeak than a high-pitched squeal.
Somehow, the world provides. It may make you suffer night sweats and day shakes, but it provides.
you’ll get through this.
So much woe, and such joy, all at once. Must be pretty intense… as if hormones weren’t enough to make even the slightest of nuisances into a mountain of peril.
Ah, this too shall pass. And all you’ll remember is the lovely Miss Nuala as pictured in your next post…
I’m thinking of you, M. Sorry it’s so rough. I’m on Skype often if you want to talk.
Where are you guys located? I always want to look out for car-share programs but don’t know if any exist outside of CA.
I’ve searched for car-share programs in the area, and alas we have none. It would be a perfect solution, too, if I wasn’t going to be teaching three days a week this fall. We’ve made it on one car for two years, but I just don’t see how we can continue to do it any longer, especially with a baby.
You know I have recently often been telling anybody that will listen that if we get a single payer health care system it will probably be born not from the utopian dreams of “the socialists”, but from the frustration of the average person dealing with the private insurance runaround.
Yeah, I think my friends had to finally get another car when they had their first. Now that they have a second (third on the way!) it’s an imperative. Shame more places aren’t more pedestrian-friendly. Public transportation is awesome.
What about things like Zip Car? It may be less expensive than another car (if there are payments) but still kind of expensive? It would probably take a miracle to find one other person/couple in a similar situation, with an opposite schedule as you guys in the hopes of going in on a car together. Or that you can trust.