So the NYC spending comes out of shared spending, which means it increases our current deficit and lowers the future surplus. A big hit to both, but we got some good news today too: AS received a big check we were expecting ($2500) and found out her teaching gig gave her a tiny raise of $180 for this coming semester.

NYC spending: $913.50 (affects both actual and future #s)
AS freelance check net: $1625 (affects only actual deficit)
AS teaching raise net: $117 (affects only future surplus)

Actual deficit: $5,192.20
Future surplus: $5,042.26

Some upcoming challenges to our tax bill goal: We want to take the kids out tomorrow for dinner and bowling to celebrate AA completing kindergarten, and the adults will want a date night next Friday, since the kids are going to be at a daycare sleepover. I'm going to see what I can do to scrounge up CC rewards and other money so we take as little as possible from the above future surplus. I think there are some little adjustments to the budget I've been meaning to make that we could use to help pay for these two nights out.