Nursery in progress! Up next: picking out art, a rug, a chair and decor!

This past year has been expensive. Honestly: more expensive than any other time in our lives, including our wedding year. Last July, we purchased our first home and put down the majority of our savings as a down payment. A few months later, our beloved little (half) townhouse flooded, and we installed a ridiculously pricey (and invisible… whomp, whomp) drain tile system. After that, we started rebuilding and remodeling. And now, we’re about to have a baby.

It’s all so exciting, and looking back, I have zero regrets. But I cannot even tell you how much money we’ve spent in the last 12 months. I mean, I could… but I don’t want to add it up and send myself into a tizzy. ;) Either way, Mitch and I are so thankful that renovations are over. It’s really nice to not “bleed money” anymore, as we’ve been referring to it. But we’re also being realistic: Having children is expensive, as is life in the city. Especially when half of our family is in the Midwest and the other half is on the East Coast! We’re likely always going to have a lot of expenses, and that’s okay.