Another of AS's student loan payments hit the account, with $59 going toward principal. $1081 down and $49 to go on the March goal. My credit card payment should hit tomorrow and finish off the goal.

In addition to AS's $1325 freelance check she received yesterday, NT got $130 in flex spending reimbursement. He also e-mailed me about how many of his parental-leave days off will be paid via vacation or sick pay. I'd calculated that all his days would be unpaid for the purposes of budget planning, so this gave us about $1200 more than planned over the next few months. So this gives us about $2650 to put toward either vacation spending, debt repay or medical expenses. Pretty exciting! I'm tempted to put the lion's share on the stupid credit card, which I haven't been able to deal a really ugly blow to in a while.

Some of my paychecks will also be more than calculated since some of my maternity leave will be funded with vacation and sick pay; since I don't know how many days I've accrued, I calculated all the days as unpaid to be safe. Once I get a schedule of estimated paychecks from work, I should have more money in the budget than I do now.

I got my official doctor approval to return to work two days a week starting next week! My main restriction is on heavy lifting, and there will actually be less of that at work than at home, so I'm not worried. NT will be home with AA those two days; he's been really busy with work and school, so he's looking forward to getting to spend more time with her.

AS is going on a business trip for four nights next week. It's going to be so weird; we just never spend any time apart! This will probably be the longest chunk of time apart in over 10 years. But I'm excited for her to get some decent sleep and hopefully come home refreshed. And it should be an interesting trip, going to a writers and publishers conference.

Now that my return to work is approved, I know our schedule for sure these next few months, so we can go ahead and start planning our two trips for the year, Virginia in June/July and England in August/September. I'm a little worried that traveling will be hard but excited for our families to meet AA.

That reminds me, I need to get photo albums together for my and AS's moms. We're sending that as belated b-day presents (both our moms have late-March birthdays). That will be one of my projects this week.