Determined to do better...

Well Easter has come and gone, along with another pay check.  It seems that no matter how I try to budget, we end up overspending and I can't seem to stop it.  Last month, we over spent by $600 and it wasn't even on any one big thing.  We got the girls portraits done, went to a show for our anniversary, and bought Maya's birthday presents.  While all of these are valid expenses, there is no excuse for overspending that much.  Now that I've seen how much we went over last month, I'm determined to do better this month, but things are already sliding.  While we did good sticking to our grocery list and saving almost $30 in coupons, we still spent over $200 on that trip.  On top of that, the $100 I made from participating in a market study was spent on eating out instead of saving it or using it like we planned and get Maya her spring wardrobe. We also had $600 in car expenses and still need new tires.  So now, I have Maya's birthday to finish up, her wardrobe to buy, new tires and a visit from J's family coming up in May to figure out...

Now that the serious stuff is out of the way, we did have a lot of fun.  As said earlier we went to Bunnyland to play some and have an egg hunt.  That was a blast and Maya loved it.  That night, J and I went to Medival Times for our anniversary and while the show wasn't that great, the food was okay, the wine was better, and a night out without the kids was perfect.  I do have to admit thought that I'm starting to feel old.  We had a babysitter all night and we were still have by 9:30.  After that we had a pretty routine week that ended with a visit from a certain bunny and dinner at my dad's house.  We had a little egg hunt for the kids, soccer and bubbles followed by dinner with most of the local family there.  Now back to our normal life and hopefully we can end the pay period in the black or at least not too far in the red.