I quit my job last month. I felt empowered for all of about two days before I realized that I am quite pregnant, raising a 17 month old and 6 animals and now officially a single income family. Scary stuff. There are lots of families that do this, and I took some comfort in that fact, but now a month later I’m starting to freak out a bit. However, my nesting instinct is also kicking in and I’m feeling that insane need to rearrange every room in my house, repurpose anything that has been sitting in a closet for a year, and cheer my husband on as he takes on his new P90 workout routine.
If I sit and think about all the stress that could come from our current situation, I know I’ll end up in a padded cell counting cracks in the walls. The bottom line is that we really don’t have it bad at all and in fact, we’re even fortunate that I’m able to stay home with our daughter and make sure she’s getting all the Mommy time she needs before she’s out the door in big girl school forever. I’ve only been married for a couple of years and we’re expecting our first son to be born in August. We have two great dogs and four cats. We have a house and a car and even a big screen TV. On paper we’re no Trump family, but we make do with what we have and so far love and a lot of patience has been currency enough to get us through everything that’s been thrown at us. Overall we have a pretty nice life — and that’s where this blog comes in.
I feel like we’re just starting something great here that should be documented, if not with the world as a whole then certainly with our family and at the the very least the cosmos. Our budding family, our young marriage, my personal desire to make my home a functional, beautiful space that we can enjoy, my love of photography (and I am purely an amateur, but I try my best), my floundering in learning to cook something other than frozen pizza and PBJs, and everything in between.
There you have it. I’m Jessica. Welcome to my Pretty Nice Life.
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