Last night when John came home from work, Bubby and I played the piano together for about 20 minutes before he got bored. He watched my hands and looked at the page, and when I played a part he knew he’d chime in on the highest keys. He loves me to put his highchair right up to the piano so he can play, too. I really love the idea that he’ll love music and possibly even play an instrument. We’ll see what he chooses to love as he grows.
The doctor told us that we really have to call our child by his name, not Bubby or Camper. Apparently he doesn’t actually answer to his real name. Hmmm…This could be an issue. Especially because we really love his name. I still think it’s cute that sometimes he just sits and says, “Bub, Bub, Bub.”
John and I had a long talk the other night and made some changes to the way we do things. First of all, we are on a budget. We tried to figure out a way we’d stick to it, and it turns out that I’m the one with the spending issue. For shiz people. So we set a weekly amount of money, and if we spend less we get to put the excess in savings. (Did you see the way I phrased that, we GET to put it into savings. This is an attitude adjustment.) It’s kind of exciting. I spent $0 today, and still got to read a new book. Libraries are amazing things.
I really have to sit down with my Mom and plan some menus. We need to eat better around here, yo. I think we probably eat well about 4 nights a week. Either my Mom or I or both will cook (my Dad did once last week! John made cookies…) The other nights we just pick or eat out. John and I are on an eating out ban. NOT EVEN ANY SECRET NUGGETS. I know. So menus it is. Here we go again…
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I swear by making weekly menus! (But I always plan “Pizza” for Fridays–it’s our weekly eat-out treat.) And as one who spends a little too much at Target every week, I can understand the pain of having to live within a budget. *Sigh* No fun! Good luck…. ;-)
We are trying the whole budget thing as well. The only problem is I pull out the money from the bank (as we don’t track what we spend on the card well) but needless to say one of us will forget to grab the cash when the car is getting low etc and so then out comes the card. I was doing really well with menus and am trying to get back to using them. The standbys on ours is breakfast Mondays, Orange Julius and Popcorn Sunday along with Casserole Wednesday and Leftover Saturday
[...] John and I had our first weekly “financial” meeting. This is something we agreed on last week when we set up our weekly budget and our budget calendar. We write the amount of [...]