Day Seven

Returned the cake stand I bought to Pier One Imports.  Now I feel back on track.  I called my deferred compensation place today to start up contributions for retirement again.  When I worked for Dayton Public Schools, I had the maximum allowed taken out of my paycheck each pay.  Then I took a pay cut to go work in Xenia so I let it go.  I've been meaning to start it back up for years but with paying Hannah's college tuition I just didn't think we could take a deduction to my take home pay.  It's definitely time.  Clark Howard and Dave Ramesy both say saving for retirement comes before paying for tuition.  I think we can do a good job of budgeting and live on less and still keep up with tuition payments.  Tonight Dan texted from work and said he wanted to take the family out to dinner.  I was worried we'd go over our budget and knew I could easily cook dinner, but Dan works hard every day and I thought that if he wants to go out with his family he should be able to.  So we went to Palermo's.  We got there at 5:15 and Hannah happened to notice on the back of the menu it said the early bird, buy one get one half price, goes until 5:30.  What a blessing!  That definitely helped with the budget and we enjoyed being out together.