Well we are dealing with a small setback this month.  I was tempted to start this post talking about how we have failed this month but I couldn’t let myself admit defeat.  The reason is if I do that then I will just give up all together.  No, we are not defeated we are just having a small setback and we need to dust ourselves off and start right back up again.

What happened is I went back to school along with the fact that there is some pretty heavy stuff going on in my family right now and it’s taking some time to adjust.  I just haven’t been able to get it together enough to do my regular grocery shopping, so our fridge looks like a bunch of bachelors live here.  We’ve been eating out like crazy.  I swore I was gonna go grocery shopping today but that didn’t work out either so I’m gonna try again and go tomorrow.  Starting with getting a good nights sleep tonight so I can wake up early, take a shower and get my butt out of the house.

The school schedule has been rough because I go Monday and Tuesday night, and then my husband goes Wednesday night.  So it’s definitely taking some getting used to as far as cooking dinner and that sort of thing.  Going to school after you have kids is a whole new experience.  It’s  certainly interesting trying to do homework when a two year old is demanding your constant attention.

So, yes, we have spent extra money on eating out this month and there was the little incident yesterday where my car was towed and I had to pay $135 to get it out.  Yep, we all live and learn right? 

However, even though we didn’t follow our budget exactly we have still kept up with all our other budget cuts and we have not bought anything on credit.  That is major.  I am disappointed that we were not able to pay as much as we wanted towards are debt this month but I am so proud that we have gone the entire 6 months without charging anything to a credit card.  That alone is amazing and we plan to keep it that way.