Going to Devner at the end of the week for 11 days, then coming back and starting IVF. It'll be a nice break before the real shit starts. Also, at some point on hubski I doubted kleinbl00 on how expensive children were. Looking at the IVF charges and how that's just for a pre-kid, I'll eat my humble pie. Also, the greenhouse is on hold - looking at the planned area in the summer, it's completely shaded in by the now leafy trees. I'm considering fixing up our shed as a new project instead.
You can do kids on the cheap but only if you're a terrible, sociopathic parent. We've spent substantially less on a whole buncha stuff than most anybody I know and according to Quicken that kid still costs me more per year than an 800-series BMW would. And she's six. No orthodontia, all activities firmly in the "just punking around" price bracket, and her medical expenses actually pay me because it's an experimental treatment (goes into a fund for her education, but still the number is positive not negative).