10-1-2009 - I god rid of it!!

My mood while writing this blog: Thinking

I'm really GLAD I'm having a boy otherwise I'd really be kicking myself in the ass right about now.

You see... About 2 months before this baby was conceived. My husband demanded that I go in my daughters room and get rid of all the baby stuff I had been saving for the almost past 3 years.

I used to buy diapers in bulk for her, so I always had those huggies and pamper boxes and I used to fold and put all the clothes and dresses she out grew in the boxes then seal them and put them away in her closet. Every sweet little dress. (I had some GORGEOUS BABY dresses and some expensive clothes in there and some still with the tags on them.) There must of been like 7 or 8 boxes and about 2 garbage bags full of baby girl clothes ranging from 9months- 24 months. He wanted me to get rid of it. I had already given away the 0-9months baby clothes (About 6 diaper boxes full) to a friend of mine who had a little girl a year later.) We just needed more room in my daughter's closet. We got it all out and he loaded it all up and brought it to Goodwill. So whoever is shopping over there for their baby is really happy. Like I said before.. Thank God it's a boy this time. :) Her car seat with the base was in the closet too and we put that to the road. (Thinking we will just get another one when and IF we get pregnant again.) haha. We weren't planning on getting pregnant soon.

Another thing though, Lily stopped using her high chair at 2 years old. When I went to Florida (Without him because he had to work.) He told me he was going to clean out the house. He put my perfectly good highchair to the road. At the time I didn't care but now I'm like man, thats another thing we are going to have to buy. The changing table I had for my daughter was a hand me down to me, and my sister had a baby boy a year after I had Lily so I gave the changing table to her. Not sure if I want it back, because I'm sure it had its time. The swing I had was a hand me down and I got rid of that thing in heartbeat. Of course I ended up throwing her baby infant tub away as soon as she grew out of it, and all her bottles. (Thats not a problem, though...) And then----My awesome, AMAZING brand new breast pump.. I loaned to my sister which she used for like 1 month and decided to stop breastfeeding. The last I heard was that it wasn't working right or something. Damnit. Ameda-Purely Yours breast pump costs like $200 or more. I AM planning to breastfeed for the whole 12 months this time around. The only reason I didn't for my daughter is because I had an oversupply of milk and I got really lazy. :(

I also loaned her my bassinet. I hope its in good condition. It is supposed to be in her attic and she said she would give it back but that doesn't help since we aren't even talking at the moment. (Thats another story.)

So I just realized that I have NOTHING for my new baby except for a crib that isn't even put together and the crib needs a mattress since my daughter's toddler bed is using the mattress. I also need to buy all new washcloths and towels for baby because everything I have is pink and the crib bedding has butterflies on it. Another thing I didn't get rid of is the play pen I rarely used. At least I don't have to buy that! I'm ready to go crazy and buy everything for my baby but you know how it is being so maternal and pregnant. You want the better, safter, nicer, baby stuff... We couldn't so much afford all that when I was pregnant in 2005 but this time we can and I'm so READY to splurge. I want to buy everything off my registry. LOL. Although I want to do this, and I want to do it right now, and I CAN do this (Not all at once but I could have everything on my registry by the time baby is here.) I have that little thought in the back of my head..... (You and Gregory have already agreed that this is the last baby. Why spend so much buying new, nice stuff when you aren't going to use it again.) DAMN IT.

What do I do? Should I listen to that though. At least NOW even though this is last baby My Aunt who has a large attic said that I could store everything there that I didn't need or want so I know if I get all the nice stuff I won't be throwing it to the road.)