Okay - with April over, I wanted to look @ what we did. Mind you, April was our first month on this particluar budget. I think we did okay... we learned a lot, and cannot wait to make a huge difference in May.

As I mentioned before, we started out negative in April, as we had to catch up on two bills. I am happy to say, we did just that.

Because we had to pay certain things this month, our savings took a hit, and we have no EF or Escrow $$. We will start those this month!

I had something happen to this month, I had to pay for a huge mistake I made 3 years ago. Huge. To the tune of $544.29. I didn't mean to cause drama... I just never took care of it. I will never do that again - ever. It cost me something more than just the $544.29 I had to shell out. Anyway - It's hard when you make a committment to do the right thing, and for three or four months, all is well - and then BAMMMM!! something from your past catches up to you. It un-nerved me, to say the least. Plus I had to come up with the cash, and make 2 car payments to my Malibu. 2 good things happened surrounding that though. 1) I had to go to downtown Phoenix, and had DH and lil DS with me. We then had to go to another city...it was around lunch time. So we stopped at Wendy's - even though we should have saved the money. After trying to order, and get everything right (the machine was doing weird things) - it wouldn't take a credit/debit card payment - so we got a free lunch! Kinda nice! And then, DH's paycheck was $600.00 more than usual due to OT. So, the Big Guy up there was saying, "Teaching you a lesson, but still going to be nice about it - not going to knock you off of your feet, totally".

It's been a crazy few weeks.

I don't like that Target beat me. I hate that we used our debit cards a few times (shame on us). But it's a learning experience. We will get there.

So, without further ado... here'ssss April!