So uh... its been a while since I blogged. But Joseph did something so incredibly sweet to me the other day I just feel the need to scream it to the world!
So to catch up on our life.... We are expecting a baby! I've had a hard pregnancy though... At the beginning of my pregnancy I was sick... like sick sick sick. And we had just started a budget, but I was too sick to go to the ATM to pull out money for our cash budget. I was too sick to pack a lunch. I was too sick to care about anything... So I just survived... day after day after day. But sadly our savings account did not. At the end of the month when the credit card was due, I would pull money from savings to make it happen (which I knew I shouldn't have, but did anyway). Joseph would remind me all the time we needed to budget and be good and I just couldn't because... well I felt like I couldn't do anything....
A few weeks ago we went on vacation to Lake Tahoe, and we had a vacation savings account, but on the drive home after spending all our money on vacation.... we knew we needed to start being better with our money, like right away. So we got back and with the little cash we had after our vacation we put together a cash budget, and have been living off of a cash budget for two weeks now.
Tuesday night my friends wanted to go to dinner with me, and of course I wanted to go with them. The place we went had burgers and shakes, and I spent $11 on dinner. But the dinner made me really sick, that night I was so sick and the next morning I was throwing it all up... So the next morning when he asked me how I was I told him I was more sad than anything. I have $20 a week to eat food on, and that is sadly really hard for me. I spend way too much money eating out, and I'm trying so hard to stick to that budget. So when he asked me why I was sad, I told him its because I spent $11 on food that I didn't really love and ended up throwing up.
The next thing he did was the sweetest. We originally decided we would spend $30 on eating out, 15 each. But he told me it was a lot easier for him to not eat out, so we split it 20/10. And when I told him how sad I was about spending $11 on one meal, he gave me $5.00. Now I know that it doesn't seem like a lot, but he gave up half of his spending money so that I could avoid a day of packing a lunch and buy food one day.
Joseph has done his very best being there for me. I have been a miserable pregnant wife who doesn't help out with much and complains/cries most of the time. But he has just been amazing. Marriage is the best, we help each other out, and sometimes one helps the other out more. Joseph is the best and he has just been so amazing to me. I am feel more and more grateful each day I am with him.
Also its Thursday night and I haven't and don't plan on spending his $5.00. I need to prove to myself that I don't need more than $20 a week for food. And then maybe on Saturday him and I can go get ice cream with the $5.00!!! Oh the exciting dates we go on these days! :)
