After we got the positive pregnancy test everything changed! We obviously knew it was a possibility (we thought it was a pretty slim one) so we knew that we'd be "comfortable" with it happening, even though it wasn't necessarily in our plans.
We started looking at houses in our hometown, Josh informed his boss that we were planning on moving. Luckily his company is based out of the town we were moving to so he has a guaranteed position after the move. We started very aggressively saving. We made a budget based on just Josh's income. We figured that it'd be good practice since we still planned on me staying home and it enabled us to save my whole paycheck. It was a tight arrangement but definitely doable.
Sometimes the unexpected happening can jolt you into action and that's definitely how it worked for us!
Even though our short pregnancy ended in miscarriage fairly early on (another post on that at some later date) we decided to push up our TTC plans. We started trying right away after the miscarriage and we've continued with the changes that we made during those beautiful 2 weeks in July.
We're still moving (in less than 3 months!!!), Josh is still changing jobs (we don't know what he'll be doing yet!) and we're still saving my paychecks. Whenever we get those 2 lines again we'll be prepared!
You've got so many good things ahead of you - I just know that the baby will be the cherry on the cake! :)
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