Doing it the right way.

Ok so I don't want to talk about the possible government shutdown, but being an army wife I can't ignore what may come next week. However I have fallen off the wagon and bought freely since paying off our car in Feb. We should have been putting about $1000 a month towards our remaining $10000 debts, but we have not. We have also spent through our saving buying DH a required military uniform (about $500 when all was said and done) and just having fun with the family. Now with this possible paycheck loss I don't have built up savings and I'm risking a 1/2 a paycheck. It was just what I needed to pick my crap up and quit buying stuff I don't need and get back to where I'm going to be at the end of 2011. I've recently started buying tons of cloth diapers (more than I need for 1 baby in diapers), and yesterday I started listing them for sale. I have other clothing items listed on a local yardsale site and I will be putting all funds back into my savings so that I never face this again. I'm going to build my savings back up and get back down to business and get all this debt off my back and be one in a time like this who feels sorry for everyone else while I'm still comfortable for several months. So with half our normal pay I can pay all our bills, and buy food for the remaining 2 weeks of the month and put about $250 into the savings for just in case we are still having issues at the end of April.

Ughhh. I hate half days!

I feel like I just got the boys to school and it's now time to run upstairs to shower before I go pick them up. I did get the living room picked up and a few loads of laundry done. Now to fold them so they can put them away when they get home and they have to clean their room. Our house is now a gated facility. ;) We have 2 gates up now to keep the baby monster in the living room where he crawls around in big circles. Zavier went to go to the bathroom and saw I had put up the second gate blocking the way to the bathroom and he's like "How do I get through?" It was funny cause he's been scaling these things for years. lol The other thing about half days that suck is that Zander would like to take a nap now. 50 minutes before we need to leave to get the big boys. I hate that. He has sleep very well the last 2 nights in comparison to the nights before. Night before last he slept from 11:30-4:30 and then about 5-8 in his crib both times. Then last night he slept from about 10:15-3 and then 5-8 in his crib. He gets up to eat and then won't go back to sleep until he's back in his bed. At 6:15 Zachary brought me the fussing baby and I got up and put him back in his bed where he slept until 8. He just has to be wrapped up so that he can't get up on his hands and knees to crawl away and pull up.