big step forward

 
I have some time to write again so I’m going to take it…. I should be going to bed but oh well.

I am so excited!!!! Our tax refund came the other day… OMG it was beautiful! I’ve never seen that much money before short of Chris’s bonus when he reenlisted. We are now officially out of debt/caught up. We still have 2 credit cards that are not all the way paid off and the SUV payment but we have paid off practically everything, I have a couple more things to pay off but the money is in the bank and just waiting on me lol.

We bought Nicholai a jumperoo and a video monitor so tomorrow night he will be moving to the crib. I’m nervous. He still doesn’t sleep through the night yet, he doesn’t wake up to eat, he just wakes up so I don’t know what will happen once we move him to the crib but he is at the weight limit for the bassinet and we have no choice but to move him. So we bought the mesh bumpers, a crib toy, the video monitor and all that’s left is the soother, which is just this little machine that plays white noise. I’m crossing my fingers that it goes well tomorrow but I’m expecting to get little to no sleep.

Hubby and I went out to eat today and were talking about this upcoming deployment. Apparently he is going to be coming home in March or April no matter what, it will be an 8-10 month deployment which means he can leave anywhere from July to September…. which is the sucky part. It’s up in the air if he will be home for Nicholai’s first birthday. I really hope that he is but this is the Army and I have to think realistically about this. More then likely he will be deployed and it sucks. I was really hoping that he would be here for Nicholai’s first birthday. But on the plus side we are planning on buying a house a month or two after he gets back. Now that we are caught up on debt we plan to stay that way and start saving big time, and when he deploys and is bringing in all that extra money we are going to save all of that too so that when he gets back we can start looking and hopefully close on a house about 2 months after he gets home. I’m really excited about being a home owner. I want Nicholai to have a yard to play in and I want a garden and I want to get settled as a family so I am soooo excited about this. It sucks that hubby has to deploy but we knew that it was coming eventually and 8-10 months isn’t bad at all.

Valentine’s Day is coming up and the hubby made reservations today for dinner for the 2 of us and set up Molly and Justin to babysit all on his own…. I’m so excited. It will be the first date that we have had without Nicholai. I bet I’m going to be worrying about him the whole time though heh.

I need to add a new chapter to my diary and I need to edit the front page….. and one day I will have time…. maybe

… don’t be afraid, sometimes they come true! … music is my life