Sorry I haven’t been writing these
last few weeks. Things were kind of busy around here while preparing for my
parents visits. I haven’t seen them in over two years so I’m sure you
understand me wanting to spend some quality time with them, lol. They were here
for a week, and since they drove all the way from Southern Ontario we didn’t really
do much except relax and play cards. G and I cooked a homemade meal plus desert
every single night. My mom doesn’t really cook all that much at home so I
wanted to spoil them/show off (i.e. make them proud: which btw my mom commented saying these were some of the best meals she's had -- score!). That being
said – our food budget is about 3x more this month, lol. I’m going to be happy
if it we keep under $800. This is one of those moments I really don’t care
though – I’m glad to feed my family good food and have nice memories & we
can afford it. We ended up only spending $260 on groceries last month so we
are sort of balancing out.
One nice thing my parents did was
let us purchase USD at par! We bought $300 US for $300 CAD. I just did a quick
calculation in Google and that would have cost us $400 CAD!! Ouch… Also the day
they left G found a note from my mom that said, “Enjoy a nice dinner in Vegas”
with a $100 bill tucked under. They had to hide it because they know we wouldn’t
have taken it if they handed it to us, lol. Our vacation account is a little
over $800, not that much considering our vacation is a month away but we are
still owed the expenses from G’s La Ronge trip ($1366) which was approved a
month ago – I’m hoping that comes in soon. Also this is all our ‘fun’ money,
the hotel has been paid for so its really about how lavish or frugal we want
our trip to be. We will be putting away as much as possible this month and next
as we would rather have a surplus in our vacation savings account than a
balance on our credit cards; but that’s really a no brainer. ;)
- M
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