First sick child of the school year came quicker than I had anticipated. We had a bout of vomitting at 4:30 AM with the first-grader, so I'm home with him. I was supposed to volunteer for Lunch Duty today and I had a list of errands to get done, rather I'm here watching the Disney Channel with said sick child, and spending way too much time on the computer.

Next to do is to update DH's resume, his job description has grown since I last did it. Still he has the feeling the somehting is going on/down, and he's not sure what his future is. I am feeling less threatened by potential gloom and doom - rather I'm feeling challenged to see how much money I can save while spending.

I fell off the bandwagon of tracking my spending since we returned home from vacation (where I tracked every dime and know exactly how much we spent). Glad to see that 9/1 is tomorrow so I can start again.

We found out that it is 100% certain that DH will be able to borrow friend's son's car for Sept/Oct/Nov/Dec while the son is in Saudi Arabia. We will use this transportation simply for DH to/from work and some minimal driving of kids to/from places. Our cost will be whatever the insurance is on it, plus a nice gift card at the end of its tenure. We're presently paying $120 for the train and shuttle.

I'm hoping to save an additional $5,000 now through the end of the year ($2K in Sept, $1K in Oct, $1K in Nov, and $1K in Dec). I did a balance transfer on our credit card balance making it 0% now through Feb 2013, I should have that gone by then.

Now off to catch up on everyone's blogs!