Was anyone else utterly shocked when they looked outside this morning and discovered snow? I think I audibly gasped – it was totally not on my radar! It’s beautiful, though, and thank you God for the moisture.
Last night the kids were playing The Quiet Game, and of course things kept happening that “didn’t count”. After about ten minutes of discussing what did and didn’t count, they decided not to play after all. I wish I had recorded it, if even for the audio!
I try to regularly video day-to-day life around here, so that someday we can look back and remember what life with five little ones was really like. I record things like the kids making up songs as they unload the dishwasher, the spinning contests that the girls have (now prohibited because one of them made themselves sick), wrestling with Jeremy, the general chaos of life with five kids – the things that aren’t an official “event” but are some of the best things about being in a family.
Combination of funny/creepy: when someone tells you they keep up with you on Facebook and you know for a fact that you are not friends with them or anyone in their family. Now that I’m personally over keeping tabs on people that I probably will never see again on Facebook, it creeps me out that other people still use it to keep tabs on me!
Oh, so I did really well on spending only cash this month, until I was at King Soopers on Sunday and went $3.00 over the amount of cash I had on me. I fished my debit card out of the side pocket of my purse to make up the difference, not even thinking until later that I could have just had them take something off. I did have $100 of my monthly cash left at home so I only sort of cheated, right?
It was motivating to me to know that I had plenty of cash for groceries and that whatever I didn’t spend would be put in savings or used to help payoff the van. I think I did better than when I took out $600 for groceries and forced myself to stay within that. With $1,000, I’m not stressed about every penny I spend on groceries but I do carefully evaluate everything else I buy because I know that whatever I don’t spend on “other stuff” gets put towards a big goal. I’m hopeful that I can have more than $100 left over next month since I won’t be paying for a Sam’s Club membership, or wedding stuff, or a homeschool co-op membership; but then my girls need new socks and there’s another birthday and Valentine’s Day and who knows what!
I know that you are “supposed” to budget for every specific category but I find that very cumbersome and de-motivating. We are such a budgeting mess that Dave Ramsey would probably cry. :)
$1.99 for Pantry Essentials (gallon) at Safeway
Haha your budgeting sounds like our budgeting. I’m sure a lot of people would cry too over us, but you know it works for us. I find it refreshing that you’re not a to-the-penny budgeter. :) I’ve tried to do that, and it is super de-motivating, overwhelming, etc. for us too.
I had seen online yesterday that it was going to snow today, but I spaced it til I saw it out the window this morning. I always enjoy the snow more when I don’t have to go out in it. Which was the case today, so totally enjoying it from the warmth of my house. Though my Mom did recently get my daughter a toy shovel (it’s at least as tall as her, if not taller) and suggested I let her use it today. I hadn’t even thought about it, but I probably should since the snow here has been few and far between.
Uh huh. The kids went outside to play but if we’d had anywhere to go today I might not have been so thrilled. :)
Over the weekend the forecast was snow Monday. Then Sunday night it changed to Tuesday. So, yes, a pleasant surprise when the original forecast was right.
Put your Debit card in your car…then if you go over you are more likely to put something back instead of go out to the car to get it… but if you HAVE TO it is there :)
That’s a good idea! Although… We’ve had car break-ins twice in the past year so that makes me nervous. :/ It was a mess last time – we had to switch two bank accounts, change our mail key, change our garage door opener… So I’m leary of leaving things in the car.