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my youngest baby is sick

my eldest has a few kindergarten readiness tests coming up

Money. Every time we seem to catch up on bills, something else comes along. It's so frustrating!

Finances are a big issue right now. We are trying to figure out if I need to work at night.

Work deadlines and my weight.

Just work and the weather. We have a lot of snow, and last week on my way to work I crashed into a ditch. I was fine, but I am nervous now. I told my boss I wasn't comfortable coming in today (I only have to go in on Friday) because we got a lot of snow last night and the roads are bad. He said said that was fine, but now wants to "talk later". Annoying.

My evil boss.

Being sick, lack of sleep in our house, finding time to do basic stuff.

Child care

The cost of heating our new home. We’re in New England so we’re used to insane winter heating costs, but so far we’ve spent over $500 a month just for heat and that’s with having the heat at 68 (or lower) and shutting off the heat to 3 rooms that we don’t regularly use and having brand new, high quality windows and insulation. I was expecting it to be like $300/month and this is screwing with my budget and stressing me out.

@septemberlove: Eeks! I hope you get feeling better soon.

I feel you all on the child care thing. After talking with our friend who's supposed to nanny for us, she wants us to do all the tax stuff, but it'll cost us at least an additional $10 per $100 we pay her, not counting an accountant or nanny payroll service or whatever is needed. We'd get a tax credit back for childcare, but it would probably only be about $600. Ugh. We may need to do an in home day care instead.

We're putting our house up for sale next week and I'm stressed about staging it. I haven't even started de-cluttering and packing stuff away because the thought of it overwhelms me (or I'm just lazy)!

Work (a little bit) and TTC (TWW here!).