Adding Onto Our Family???

Scary, exciting, and unsure times ahead.

Today I was supposed to take my birth control pill (being Sunday and the start of a new pack) but....I didn't. ??????

My hubby and I have been considering expanding our family again. Really, the ONLY thing stopping me is money. STUPID MONEY! (see debt blog) Daycare costs are killer and having two in daycare at the same time (at least for a year or two until Allie starts school) would be very tough, if not impossible....

My hubby doesn't view money the same way I do (since I do all the banking, bill paying, balancing the books, etc.). His hesitation of having another baby is our current child. Allie is and has been quite a handful since the very beginning. She's VERY smart and needs a lot of attention and stimulation. (her doctors have even commented on her intelligence and spunk since she was 2 weeks old) She tests our nerves on a daily, sometimes hourly, basis. She can be a handful at daycare and terrible to take out sometimes. Just the thought of having another active/high-maintance child like our first could really stress us out. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE my child with all my heart, but I really can't imagine having a "twin" version of her. But this isn't too much of a concern of mine but more of my hubby's.

Since we finally got Allie potty-trained (woo hoo), my husband has been more open to adding another one to our mix. It also helped that he got to play with a 1 year old baby who was just a dollbaby. Maybe he missed the little ones!

But what do we do about the money issue stopping us? We have a lot of debt that we have been trying to snowball to get rid of.

IF and I mean IF we can time the 2nd baby right and have him/her arrive in late June or July, then we would have the whole summer with the baby. No daycare to pay for and no sick leave to take through the summer. (we're both teachers if you didn't know before)

Can we swing another child? Besides diapers, clothes, and daycare...I would breastfeed (God-willing) as long as possible again to save money......can we swing another child? I want another one...so does my husband...and my daughter really needs someone to grow up with.

I ended my Debt post with this: people with less than what we have have multiple kids. Can we do it, though? Or should we wait til the debt is paid and/of Allie is in school?