I was treated to lunch today by my best friend. We brought ds5 with us--he loves my friend and was so good in the restaurant. After lunch we went to dd9's class to help with a clay project. I had to be at work by 3:00, so we rushed home, I got changed and left.

Work was fine. We have new managers who are not sure of their place yet, or what they should be doing staffwise. I went down to my office to do some work, but was called on the radio twice within five minutes of being there, so I just went back up to the restaurant and stayed there. After we shut down, the manager from another department took me out for dinner. I was expecting to pay for myself, but he signed the register receipt and told me he was happy to treat me because I'd helped him out a lot lately. So, with two meals out I had a no spend day.

Things I did to save money today:
1) Brought an orange for a snack to ds's gymnastics class instead of buying something from the vending machine.
2) Returned a sweater that I bought without seeing the black spot on the front of it.
3) Froze all the leftover cranberries that were given to me (about 8 cups), to use in baking as needed.

I think that's it. We should do fine this month, and be able to stay within our budget. I used the same envelope amount as last month, and will try not to combine them all at the end of the month. We will be spending money when we go away next week, but I'm taking it out of savings, and I am NOT going to feel guilty about enjoying ourselves and will NOT count every penny spent...okay, I will count every penny spent but I will try very hard to not feel guilty about it!