T-Minus How Many Days Until Baby Burrito Bowl?!

This is possibly the least applicable article I’ve ever written. I realize nobody else really REALLY cares that we’re having a baby and even less people care to read an article about my thoughts on having a baby. It’s a strange time. Anyway…

“You’ll understand once you have a kid,” Mr. Burrito Bowl to everyone who doesn’t have a kid, in about a week.

Well, it’s somehow mid-December.  That means Baby Burrito Bowl is most likely within a few days of her long-awaited arrival.  Pregnancy’s weird, man.  She’s just hanging out like RIGHT THERE in Mrs. Burrito Bowl’s belly.  It’s the craziest thing.  She’s a full on human baby just kicking it, literally, for the next several days. 

For those of you who don’t know, Baby Burrito Bowl will be our first kid.  Mrs. Burrito Bowl is busy knitting all sorts of baby related clothing articles and I’m typing things into Youtube like: “What do you do with a baby that’s a girl?  A human baby girl.” Continue reading “T-Minus How Many Days Until Baby Burrito Bowl?!”

Saying Goodbye to the Dink Days-Preparing for Our Baby Girl with FI in Mind

Well friends and neighbors, it’s official.  We are expecting a Baby Burrito Bowl in late December.  On August 3rd we found out our future little bundle of emotions will be a girl.  We are incredibly excited, and the proper amount of terrified, about the whole process.

This will be a fun little case study on how to go about planning for a child with financial independence in mind using ourselves as case study subjects.  Will we crush it and prove to ourselves that having a child doesn’t have to cost a small fortune?  Will we abandon the FI ship and run gleefully towards consumerism, small child in tow?  Only the gods know at this point. Continue reading “Saying Goodbye to the Dink Days-Preparing for Our Baby Girl with FI in Mind”