I am rapidly approaching graduation from college, and trying to figure out what I'm going to do with myself. My husband is buying a restaurant, and will be making very, very little money for the next couple of years. After I graduate, I will have student loans to pay off. I have other debts I need to pay on. I would like to stay home with my daughter and have another baby, but need to find a way to make a living while doing so. We don't really have much in the way of corners left to cut that DH is isn't already cutting.

We're contemplating me moving back to my hometown for a while, where I can get support from my mom (especially childcare), and live much more frugally than here. We did the math, and maintaining 2 households (my husband will continue to live with his brother and his brother's girlfriend, our roommates) will be less expensive than one.

We talked about me staying here if I'm not going to grad school (which is the direction I'm leaning right now). If I do, he wants me to still find a way to pay off my student loans, and not go stir-crazy at home alone all the time with our daughter like I did when she was a baby. She'll be 3 when I graduate, and I want to homeschool and, as I mentioned, have more children. I have a network of friends here now, and truly don't think I"ll be bored.

But to make up my mind, I'm going to do a whole lot of self-examination in this blog. Comments are quite welcome.