Family Matters

First off, a quick update on the financial side. I decided to bite the bullet and sign up for YNAB Pro and have been working on figuring it out. So far I think it is going to be a very powerful tool, but I am going to have to adjust my entire way of thinking to understand it. The biggest change is going to be the "0 based budget" concept, which means that you look at every penny you are going to be earning for the month and then give it a "job", whether that is savings, bills, etc. Then, when you "available" money gets to zero, you STOP budgeting. Now, this requires that I keep a close eye on what we are spending and when, but that isn't such a bad thing. One of the cool things is that you can either budget from just one account or from your whole "pile of money" wherever it is located (savings, checking, money market, etc.) At this point I think I am only going to look at the main checking account and still keep track of the other account via spreadsheet. That has worked very well for us since the beginning and I hope it will continue to work just as well. But then again I will have to keep figuring it out as we go along.

Caleb is still having issues with the potty training. Last night he peed in his pants and was running around naked (which he usually loves) but then all of a sudden he asked me to put a pull-up on. So we did and then less than 5 minutes later the pull-up was soaking wet. Basically he knew he had to pee but wanted to go in the pull-up rather than the potty. Oy! We will keep working on it but this is going to take forever.

This weekend should be pretty quiet. We are just going to hang around and try not to spend money. I have all the meals for the weekend planned so that should help. If Caleb gets nuts we will try to go to the play area at the mall (free) or maybe see if he would like to play with the neighbor again. We are usually going to many places that he might go a little stir crazy spending the day at home, but it is something we should be doing more often. Now that the basement is finished I hope we can start using it more. It would really be nice to have a TV down there, but that could be a while.

I think we are going to try to invite Keough's over for dinner and cards tomorrow night since we are going to be in town for once. That should be fun, but we will have to see if Caleb will let us play cards or if he will want the undivided attention that he usually does.