Well, the start of a new month means the start of a new budget! Yay! We did overspend a bit in October, nothing too terrible, but I always enjoy the challenge of a new month...we'll pretty much keep things the same as last month, including the envelopes, although on October 30th I emptied all the remaining money, combined it equaled 20.00, and we went to the pumpkin patch. So now we'll be starting over fresh! Today after work, I took the 3 kids and we did our big once a month Costco Shop which cost 178.00, but pretty much supplies all our dinners for the month. I think I had items for 5 dinners left over from October, and we're going away for 4 days next week, so we should have plenty. Dh is happy because he gets his 200 bucks in spending money today, and last month he overspent by about 100!!!! He kept 'borrowing' and saying that I could take it off November's money...if I do that he'll be 'borrowing' from December, so what's the point? We'll see how he manages this month. Sometimes, he's worse than the kids, and I told him last month I'm not his Mom and, as wonderful a Mom as she is, I don't want to be her!

Work went better the last few days. I work 6 days this week, because I'm trying to make sure that I'm ahead when I take 3 off next week...oh, well, hopefully things will be slowing down soon. We'll see.