BUT we also funded our sinking funds, so I’m happy with that. We’re not fully buffered, but bills are covered through the 17th and since this is an extra paycheck month, we should be fully buffered by April 1. 
) I decided to break down how many shifts I would need to pick up to pay for the trip with extra earnings vs savings. I always base it on my net vs gross pay because taxes eat a good chunk. I only need to pick up two shifts/month from now until November to cover the vast majority of our trip! This is TOTALLY doable given that I only work once or twice/week. They called me last night desperate for help becaue we had a lot of add on surgeries. So I worked 7.5 hours today for time and half and then they asked me to pick up again on Monday for time and a half. Even though I didn’t work my full 10 hours today, I based the number of shifts needed on straight time, so I’ll already have my two March shifts done by Monday! I plan to just keep taking any shift they offer as we are super busy and short staffed. Maybe we’ll even make more progress on the van this year than I originally thought! 
Oh, and food is an interest where ever I go.
Small victory for me: I managed to stay about $50 under my budget for my Target spending in February! I have a Target Red Card and budget $200/month for it which I pay off every month. I get most of my groceries and home stuff there along with food and litter for my cat. The card saves me 5% which adds up. I came in at $151.94 this past month!
your $3.72!!!
It's the same as Dosh!
that's still a positive vs. breaking even or worse-having to pull it from savings or put it on a credit card. it may not seem like allot in the big picture put it all adds up. i look at it in the context of the grocery shopping i just got back from doing-i bought pork loin for around $1.85 per pound (cheaper than the chops i wanted so we'll cut it into chops and freeze in multiple packages) so that $3.72 you saved would equate to about 2 pounds of pork which for us would be a couple of dinners.
a few bucks might not seem like a lot saved-the cost of 2 dinners seems like a whole lot more so
It’s amazing how well kids do! We are on our fourth fractureI usually have to remind my kids to give the broken arm a break. Like, ‘Buddy, don’t hang from the monkey bars with the casted arm you broke three weeks ago.’ At one point our ortho was worried about my DD’s innervation because during a x-ray check they had removed the cast and my DD used the broken arm to boost and hold herself on the elevated counter so she could see the x-ray too. Both the ortho and I had a mild panic with that one. Kids really are amazingly resilient! Hopefully your DD’s fracture can be healed with casting alone and you can avoid surgery. Keep us updated!
I have pictures of him pulling his wagon with the casted arm the first round. Luckily the ortho near us offers waterproof casting so when the last fracture happened 2 weeks before our first cruise, it was great that he could still swim and snorkel and have fun. That last one was a doozy. It was severely displaced and they had to give him IV sedation to set it. That was hard to watch. Ortho was really hauling on it but in end it was perfect alignment. I'm mainly interested in hiking, seeing the Swiss Alps, and Bernese Mountain Dogs since I own one!
At first I thought what part of the country is this with 80s weather??? Then kept reading, Disney!
Yup.. friends and family keep texting me pics of the snow lol.. we left NJ at the right time! There is a cold front coming here next week.. high on Wednesday will only be in 60s which is cold for Florida. We leave tomorrow night.At first I thought what part of the country is this with 80s weather??? Then kept reading, Disney!
