I'm a desperate housewife I guess, but this isn't Wisteria Lane. My husband wanted me to quit working when we started a family. I knew it would be a financial sacrifice, but I didn't realize I'd be living in a 2 bedroom, 1 bath house with 4 kids under 10 in a neighborhood that's so sketchy that my kids can't even play in their own yard without me supervising them.
We don't go on vacation. I buy my kids' clothes at thrift stores except for 3 new outfits a year one for the first day of school, one for Christmas, and one for Easter. I haven't seen a movie in an actual movie theater in 6 years. My younger kids have never seen a movie in a theater. We wait until friends or family members buy or rent tapes and them we borrow them. My oldest son saw a movie on DVD at a friend's house and came home crying because he really wants us to have it at home. I use coupons and only buy store brands of food and toiletries, but even then I often buy dented cans or day old baked goods from the discounted aisle. We don't have dessert unless its a holiday because I can't afford it. The two older kids get reduced price lunch at school and the two little ones eat ramen noodles with a canned vegetable or canned fruit with me at home.
At this point day care would cost to much for me to go back to work full time, but I'd like a part-time job. My husband feels like I am backing out on the agreement. Plus he wants another child. My sister paid for me to secretly have the birth control shot, but it's making me sick and I'm afraid about having another.
We don't go on vacation. I buy my kids' clothes at thrift stores except for 3 new outfits a year one for the first day of school, one for Christmas, and one for Easter. I haven't seen a movie in an actual movie theater in 6 years. My younger kids have never seen a movie in a theater. We wait until friends or family members buy or rent tapes and them we borrow them. My oldest son saw a movie on DVD at a friend's house and came home crying because he really wants us to have it at home. I use coupons and only buy store brands of food and toiletries, but even then I often buy dented cans or day old baked goods from the discounted aisle. We don't have dessert unless its a holiday because I can't afford it. The two older kids get reduced price lunch at school and the two little ones eat ramen noodles with a canned vegetable or canned fruit with me at home.
At this point day care would cost to much for me to go back to work full time, but I'd like a part-time job. My husband feels like I am backing out on the agreement. Plus he wants another child. My sister paid for me to secretly have the birth control shot, but it's making me sick and I'm afraid about having another.
