My, my. How fitting is it that my mommy blog has gone untouched for so long? Can you tell I have been busy? Two kids and over one year later, now we are finally expecting our third baby! We’ve also had many furry additions to our family. It’s been a crazy year and a half. I feel like the woman who started this blog was a completely different person from who I am now. Mistakes were made, lessons were learned, backs were stabbed, etc. It’s been an adventure, for sure. But I wouldn’t change a thing about it… JUST KIDDING. There’s that one brat I wish I never met. Then there’s that group I wish I never joined. And those people I should never have tried to get to know. My crazy kids and stubborn husband are the only reason I have been able to stay grounded throughout this whole mess! And do you want to know my biggest reason for coming back to the blogging scene? MONEY. Lmao it’s stupid, but I want so desperately to move out of my current neighborhood. I have had back to back psychopath neighbors (maybe a topic for a future blog post?) because this neighborhood is mostly inhabited by married teenagers who make serial bad decisions. It’s almost cute how they think they’re so mature and ready for the real world. Almost. The kind of crap I’ve seen since living here is almost like something you’d expect to see in the movies. Completely dramatic and ridiculous. The neighborhood I live in has the highest rate of domestic disturbance calls than any of the other many neighborhoods in our area. It’s like living with a bunch of high schoolers, except these kids have way more freedom. Aka more ways to torture you. And I have to live around them 24/7!

The bad neighbors are only part of the problem, though. We have also completely outgrown our teeny tiny house. I have actually hated this house for a while now. It is puny and nearly unusable because of how many beings live here. Everything is just squished into random places and nothing looks cute. All of our furniture takes up so much room that every room feels extremely crowded. And because our neighborhood is considered the crappiest in the area, our housing company severely neglects the houses and amenities. The only reason we have stayed this long is because this neighborhood is the cheapest in our area and we would take a HUGE budget cut if we moved elsewhere, which would me a huge setback in paying off the debt we’ve stupidly accrued. Hence why I’m kicking this blog back into gear. My husband said that if I can make the amount of money we would lose from moving to a better neighborhood, he’d be 100% on board with moving. So here I am! Brainstorming on how to make money from home without selling my soul to a MLM company. An away from home job is pretty much out of the question. Not only am I extremely attached to my kids, but childcare out here costs an arm and a leg. Not to mention there are so many horror stories of bad babysitters in our area. It’s just less stressful for me to find a job that I can do from home. Pregnancy insomnia has been kicking my ass lately, so I might as well make use of myself while lying in bed waiting to fall asleep. I’m planning on trying to post at least 5 days a week at first so I can quickly build my blog up, then maybe shaving a day off here and there later on if 5 days a week is too overwhelming.

And guys… I already have a new neighborhood in mind! The houses are SO much nicer than the shoebox in which I’m currently living. Just thinking about moving to those houses gives me butterflies. I am so excited to see if all of this works out. And the best part, my stalker won’t know where I live! It’ll be great! Fingers crossed this works out for my family and I.