At the risk of sounding overwhelmed...

Hello weekend!

We have a big spacious apartment and a beautiful baby, but needless to say sometimes it's still just as hard as ever.

We still have boxes yet to unpack and little Auden's room is nowhere close to being finished. This can mostly be attributed to financial reasons, with how we are generally paycheck to paycheck, and more often than not it is OK, but when it's too hot to hang outside, and you don't have too much to spend leisurely, being inside an unpacked apartment still gets to you..

Auden's new dresser came with a defective piece that we can neither replace nor reorder, so we're still waiting for Babies R Us to reccomend what to do. So her clothes are still wrinkled in boxes and bags..
We dont have a desk for the computer yet so we sit on the floor with wires all through the spare room, which is full of garbage bags of our clothes because we still need to buy tension rods to put in our closets for the clothes to hang on! And although I found a washer and dryer on craigslist for only $100, we still need the duct to vent out the gas, and that is another expense that we simply can't do right now, and that clearly does not help our apartment look anymore organized.

Oh, frustration! I know we made the right choice getting our own place - and Auden's own place, and our apartment is a real gem, but it's so hard waiting and waiting for us to add a certain essential every [other] month.

The situation will only be worsened when our health insurance starts getting taken fom my pay come September.

In the meantime, it has become my goal to find a career I fully enjoy, with a modest salary and benefits, by this time next year. I do not think this is too lofty a goal... I've applied to one faith based nonprofit thus far and am regularly looking for more options.

Please excuse the slight pessimistic nature of this blog.
In the meantime, we're more than thankful for our current situation - albeit occasionally tired of it.

Please keep thinking of us. I'm thinking of you!