Our Biggest Weakness

Darrell and I had quite a few reasons for choosing to not to find out the sex of our baby, but as we get closer to the due date, I'm realizing we could add another reason to the list: financial savings. If we knew the sex of this child, I can almost guarantee that every trip to Target or Babies 'R' Us or even a second-hand store would result in us coming home with at least one new outfit for little one. In fact, I've even been tempted to buy some of the super cute outfits I've seen because I'm afraid they won't be available once baby actually arrives, but I can logically reason myself out of those decisions because I know I won't be able to return the outfits (at least not this far in advance) if they end up being for the wrong sex. And let's be honest--none of the gender neutral pieces are really to die for (although Target did have some cute ones while we were there this weekend--and they've since been added to our registry).

However, there is one piece of baby gear that we haven't been able to resist spending money on: books. At the rate we are going, baby is going to have a library that will rival mine by the time he/she is born (and believe me--I have a pretty extensive collection). It hasn't helped matters any that as I get closer to my due date I become more reluctant to buy full-priced maternity clothes, which lands me at second-hand stores to do my shopping. Second-hand stores that just happen to have large selections of super cheap baby books. Who can resist this gem for just $3.00?

Or this classic for a mere $1.50?

And no child's library is complete without a little Dr. Seuss (just $1.00 for the book!)

And that's only the tip of the iceberg! I suppose there are worse things we could be spending our money on, though, right?

I've got Darrell working on a pretty sweet bookshelf project for the nursery that I'm excited to share once he gets it finished; we've also crossed a few other nursery projects off our "to-do" list that I hope to share by the end of the week!