Our trip out of town was fun, but the money here and there sure adds ups. Longterm parking, car rental, meals out, goodies.... I managed to find a few free things to do as well. The place we were staying at had free admission tickets to the children's museum, so DD and I took advantage of that. We went on a couple of walks/hikes and found a library - all free, and all fun.

Really good news on DH job front - a bonus and a raise!! Woo hoo!!! The bonus goes into savings, and part of the raise (we're thinking half) goes into increasing the 401k contribution.

A friend invited DD and I to join them at the zoo today - both of our families have memberships there - but I have too much else to do today in anticipation of my folks coming into town sometime tomorrow. If I wasn't tutoring this afternoon, I could do it, but those two hours out of the afternoon cut into what we can do, unless we stick close to home and don't really have to do a lot of driving.

Later this morning I'm planning on checking monthly spending for last month and updating my spreadsheet to show how our savings are increasing/decreasing on a monthly basis.

April totals:
Groceries: $310.72
Restaurants: $151.05
Starbucks: $54.44

I have a somewhat long to-do list today. I haven't done grocery shopping yet, but I have gotten a bunch of laundry done. Most of it has line-drying, though I do have one load in the dryer right now. That's the drawback of doing more than one or two loads in a day - I run out of places to hang everything.

I need to go through my cupboards and freezer and see what I have, plan some menus and then go do the food shopping.

I put together over $500 worth of medical receipts for DH to take to work for reimbursement. It will be nice to deposit that check into savings.