Sunday
Grocery shopping day. This time three weeks of supplies for $100, including stocking up on Coke while it was on sale ($.40 for each 20-ounce bottle, $.25 a can -- it pays to use the stock from home and forgo machines and restaurant Cokes!). Now that I've been in this new routine of grocery shopping for about three months, I'm really impressed by
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#1 - I looked into the general stuff of various infertility treatments a few years ago, and I have already decided (and Ian respects) that isn't for me. It's just so... much. It is perhaps good for Ian and I to revisit this particular "what if" right now, however -- and on your mention, I will pencil that in for a talk in the next few months. We'd both like to have a child naturally. For me, adoption runs only a very close second. Ian feels more strongly about this, however. Although we covered this topic a few years ago, you raise the good point that now that's "in our face," perhaps time to revisit it.
#2 - I know ZERO about AFLAC, but by coincidence, have a social connection to someone who sells it. Her husband raised the topic with me recently. Time to check it out.
One nice thing is that if we stay put and I retain my current job, I work for a hospital company. The hospital portion is pretty much free for me. We also have a weird benefit of bonus sick time that would give me about a week or two of extra time off with full pay. IF we stay put.
One of my coworkers is currently expecting. I'll start by asking her some of these questions, and then move on to my favorite person in our Benefits Dept.
Thanks for the practicals!
Trace
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