I am starting to feel a overwhelmed with the amount of things I want to get done. I have all these things I would like to have completed before baby gets here, plus I’m pregnant, plus I’m battling cancer, oof! I thought it might be healthy to look back at the things I have gotten done.
The list then v now
So if you read my earlier post, there was a to do list that looked like this:
- Start a blog ✅
- Check credit scores ✅
- Join and use credit cards
- Debt repayment plan
- Get at joint bank account at a credit union with a high interest savings account✅
- Savings budget
- 401k, IRA, HSA budgets
- Make account transfers automatic
- Invest
- Make a baby
- Talk to realtor
- Get pre-approved for a home loan
- Ask people who have stay at home jobs for the perfect one for a homemaker
- Buy a house
- Get a stay at home job
- Have a baby
Now the list looks something like this.
- Start a blog ✅
- Check credit scores ✅
- Join and use credit cards ✅
- Debt repayment plan ✅
- Get at joint bank account at a credit union with a high interest savings account✅
- Savings budget ✅
- 401k, IRA, HSA budgets ✅
- Make account transfers automatic ✅
- Make a baby ✅
- Talk to realtor ✅
- Start college savings fund
- Get pre-approved for a home loan (started)
- Ask people who have stay at home jobs for the perfect one for a homemaker ✅
- Buy a house
- Get aa amazing stay at home job ✅
- Have a baby
- Beat cancer
7 month MEGA adulting list
The above title is what I called this to do list. It is pretty cool to see how far we have come. getting the credit cards set up and starting to use them felt like an impossible step at the time. And we weren’t pregnant and the battle against cancer hadn’t started! Looking back it was super easy!
I am not sure that is how we are going to feel purchasing a house with all this going on. I am so anxious about it. It feels akin to crossing to the other side of the globe on foot. The feeling is creeping into everything. Coupled with hormones and treatment fatigue it is causing me to explode about innocuous setbacks like forgetting passwords.
We can do all the pregnancy things
I know we can handle this. We obviously have been one step at a time! I am trying to be really gentle with myself. I am going through a lot, it is ok to feel overwhelmed and want to take it easy.
Looking at the list, we are actually most of the way there. There are three times as many check marks as there aren’t. Just 3 more hurdles till we get to live stressed out parent lives 🤣. 1. Buy a house and move in. 2. Have a baby. 3. Beat cancer. Not sure it will happen in that order. This is maybe the Mount Everest of a 3 step plan, but I know we will get to the other side, and it will feel so good when we do!