This weekend we bought:

Groceries for $251.51
40 lbs of Dog food for $35
Gas for the van $39
School supplies for the kids (which included a birthday present for my oldest) $101.41
and dinner at Olive Garden to celebrate DH making Chief - $75
DH's haircut - $17

This upcoming week I have:
Daughter's braces $352 due on Wednesday
Babysitter so I can attend class $60 (2 classes this week)

Who knew life was so expensive?

Although I still feel like we succeeded, we didn't have to use the CC once.

I only plan to use the CC this month to pay for my tuition. Then we'll officially be doing our "plastectomies"

DH has to take leave next month too cause he has "use or lose"... he was planning on taking 2 weeks and using that time to fix up the car.

We'll need to see how much that will be. I think we may be able to spend $1800 for repairs/maintenance on the car. In October he gets a $3K bonus that we can use to refund the EF & pay down our debts more but as long as we can stay away from CCs I will feel like we're still winning.