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Dear blog,  Since this is not our first child, we decided to keep things practical. Plus, we thought we were done with babies so we needed a lot of the basics. But let me tell you, things have changed drastically since the last time I had a child: the PRICES, the QUALITY, the STYLES. I was overwhelmed with shopping for the various things we needed; and I love shopping. We also live in a much smaller place, there is no room for the dedicated baby area. We only have two rooms and two older kids to fill one of those, so the baby's crib has to be in our room. Without realizing it, I put a mini crib on our registry (I NEVER thought it was a full size crib). I chose that particular crib because it came with an attached changing table and drawers. So in my mind, it was great because it brought the different features that work in our favor. Fast forward to when we put the crib together; I cried because it was so small. The drawers are tiny so they don't hold much. The mattress I got fr

 Dear blog,  It has been a hot minute since I posted something. But, what can I say, life has a way of throwing us for a loop. The song that currently describes my life is Thomas Rhett's Life Changes . Nine months ago I found out I was pregnant with my third child! Yeah, you read that right; THIRD!!! Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would be pregnant again; especially not after the last time being so traumatizing and my husband getting a vasectomy. FUN FACT of the day fact, a vasectomy can reverse itself after 7 years. So be careful if you are relying on one to be your permanent birth control. 1 in every 200 isn't permanent, and my husband had to be that 1. Was it easy to process, no. I cried myself to sleep for several months. I was scared about what happened last time and I didn't want that to happen again. I have no idea how we could afford another child, things are not the same as they were seven years ago. Everything is way more expensive now and the scarcity o