New Month – New Us :)

March 1 is upon us. February came, and February went. Usually I feel like the days, weeks, months just FLY by! My goodness, this one dragged on and on. I’m thinking it’s the fact that we’ve had snow on the ground since November, and even w/ the snow in other places I see pictures my friends take of their little ones outside making snow angels, etc… I can only think to myself, “It’s STILL below zero wind chill here! We can’t even enjoy the snow if we wanted to!”

But this weekend – there were glimmers of hope all over. It was the first Sunday going to church this month where it wasn’t snowing! We were able to play outside on Saturday. Granted, it was 35 degrees – technically only 3 degrees above freezing, but do you know how GOOD it felt?! There were bikes to be rode, balls to be kicked, snow to be climbed on, until she realized how cold the snow was, and then more bikes! I was able to leave the car outside and put the Christmas decorations back into the rafters of our garage (when you have a small house like us, you make do with what you’ve got!). I can actually get to our freezer again. Just being outside and not having your teeth hurt because it’s so cold felt amazing. AND there were fresh pineapples at the grocery store! And grapes were $1.77/lb and not $4.00/lb.

R and I have decided we’re going to start doing things a bit differently. We need a kick in the shorts. Financially we got off track in February. I was traveling a lot and got too tired lazy to really meal plan when I’m home, grocery shop, or care about our finances. It’s embarrassing how much we spent on useless, unnecessary stuff. BUT – you can only pick yourself up where you fall down in order to keep moving. So that’s what we’re doing.

We spent the morning yesterday cleaning the house as a family. After church this morning we braved the crowds and went grocery shopping (usually a no-no on my list – grocery shopping on a Sunday?? Too many people!). And our refrigerator has more fresh fruit and fresh vegetables than you would believe. It’s great! We’re going to start eating healthier. I seriously think we ate out and more junk in February than all of 2009. Seriously, we did so well last year and I think we were just tired. So, I hope we enjoyed the “rest” because we’re back at it now. We are not out of debt, we have work to do people!

Here we go!