Alright, the closer I get to having this baby (my first) the more I wanna stay home. At 14 weeks I left my job making 15.65 and got a job making 13.50. I was used to being up every morning at 5, getting to work by 5:30, and working (very physical labor job) until anywhere from 3 to 6 PM. I know work 3 nights a week, 6pm to 6 am. It's nice and all, but I feel like when I'm not working I'm sleeping. I'm also in college online, studying psychology in ABA (applied behavioral analysis). I've never had time with the old job to decorate and make my house the way I want to, but before I was never really "domestic." I cooked and cleaned, but that's about it. Now, I want to stay home, I want to have some sort of cute pinterest house (lord help me) I wanna cook homemade meals all the time, and I wanna be with my kid and my man. 3rd trimester hormones are hitting me HARD. I can't even take it out on my nursery because I have NOTHING for this baby; I'm waiting till my baby shower, which is scheduled pretty late in the game I might add, to buy anything. I want advice! Stay at home moms, what do you do for a little extra money? I need to be able to contribute financially, I'm thinking at least 650 every 2 weeks. I'm contemplating going full time at our local gas station (I live in a small town) so I don't have to commute 40 miles to work in a hospital and get paid hardly enough to make it worth it. Work from home moms, how do you balance it? Overnight working parents, is this even possible? I'm exhausted. And for those pinterest moms (you know who you are) HOW did you find the time and money to make your house so cute and still cook? Is this all a facade that isn't actually possible to live up to? I guess I just want some advice on balance (and anywhere that you can get good deals for around the house stuff..). No negative comments please! I'm going to cross post this to try and get some feedback from all over, so don't get annoyed if you see this a few times. Thanks for reading!