We got our paychecks a couple days early (probably because of Presidents Day) and AS's federal refund (the big one) today!

NT's paycheck was about $100 more, and my regular paycheck is going to be $18 more than I thought, so that's good news.

I still have to decide where all the money is going to go. I gave us each a $100 spending-money bonus, and I'll be putting the majority into the baby/emergency fund. But I'm also going to pay a bit extra on a loan to make sure I hit my Feb. debt goal, and I think I'm going to use some money to switch us to prepaid cell phones. The plans I want require an initial outlay of about $250, but after that we should save an average $30 to $40 per month over our current plan!

But I wanted to make sure we had enough in the bday fund because we've started buying presents for March already. So I'm moving $225 into that savings category now.

That means we're at $250 saved, $168 to go to reach our savings goal for the month. We'll easily surpass that once I figure out exactly how much of the tax return is going into savings.

Oh, and I almost missed eating fresh fruit yesterday, but I decided to count the avocado that was in my pasta. It's a fruit, it was not cooked, just warmed up a bit, so I'm saying that's my fresh fruit. Whew!

I'm behind on posting photos of dinner, but don't worry, I've been keeping up on taking the pics. I just have to get it together enough to download and post them.