WIC

WIC

I know this will seem weird to some people that I am blogging about this, BUT today was our last day using WIC! HURRAH!

John and I willingly chose to have our kids during the financially hardest part of our married lives. To some that may seem CRAZY, not logical or irresponsible. To us, it was a leap of faith. We didn't plan on having a baby at least until John was done with his under-grad. We had a long road ahead and knew it. But we KNEW Noah was supposed to come. I can't even imagine how different our lives would be if we had waited. Waited till when? Til we had a steady pay-check? So that would be Josie! What if she was our first? What a weird thought! Three incredible spirits would have had a long wait! and I needed them! I really did. I would have been so lonely without them. More sane maybe, but so lonely!

Back to WIC. We have used it since I was pregnant with Noah. It was a life saver for us. I am leary of all the judgers out there thinking...really 9 years! I know, it was along time! I hated coming back to Utah, walking into Bowman's seeing YW I knew from when I was first married, who were working at Bowman's and who were checking me out with WIC. I was not humble sometimes. It has been a very long road, and as much as I wanted to give it up, WIC was one of the blessings that gave us a little wiggle room in our budget. So I would swallow my pride and keep using it.

But today was my last day. What made it my last day you might ask. Well, John and I certainly haven't struck it rich! But because John gets a small raise every year. We now exceed the availability by a small amount of money. And although it will make pennies tight and the raise he got will just cover what we lost in WIC and reduced school lunches, it is a freeing feeling!!! I no longer have to worry about what I wear when I go shopping and am using WIC. I used to worry so much that people thought I was working the system, so I wanted to dress in my scrounge stuff when I went to use it. I no longer have to worry about people seeing me using it, and them wondering, hmmm.... I thought her husband was a doctor!?! or worrying that I had my wedding ring on when I would use it, so people wouldn't think I was a single mom.

I KNOW these are all silly prideful things! I am well aware!!! None the less, I am human. I am happy to be off WIC, and I am so very grateful there are programs like it! I am also grateful, that this means John and I are coming to the end of a long road! He will soon be making good money, and we will be giving it right back to the programs that helped carry us through.

I am blessed!