Tonight, after school, the girls and I worked in the garden. We planted zuchinni and cucumbers. I turned the compost pile over--I have some really good black dirt in it now, as well as some potatoes that are sprouting in it. I put in 16 hills of zuchinni. I hope I get a ton of them. I like to shread it, pack it up in 2 cup quanities and freeze it. (a loaf of zuchinni bread calls for 2 cups). I also make zuchinni pie-make it just like pumpkin-it even tastes like a light pumpkin. I have used up all the beds, but have more garden I want to put in. I have one sunny spot in the yard that I think I can turn over and add some compost to and put in more--I still have seed left for pumpkin, squash and more cucumbers. I only got 3 hills of cucumbers in tonight. I like to make pickles. I will need to get some landscape timbers-about 8 of them. We are starting to get strawberries--about 2-5 rippen each day. The girls eat them as fast as they see them. When they start coming on some more, I will freeze them. Tomorow I go back to work. I hope daughter #2 makes it ok at school without me. She did real well today-till about 4 p.m. Then she started not feeling well, and had a major temper tantrum. I set up my budget today. Now that I am going back to work, and will be having full paycheck again, it looks like every month I will have $795 leftover. I am glad I had my emergency fund to help, and if my cousin had not sent me a check, I would have really been in trouble. This time, I will put 4 months salary in my EF at least. Then, I will really start hitting the house payment and knock it on down. I now owe just under $50,000 on the house. My Sears card is at zero. I do use it a couple times a year, but pay it off when I get it. I am also going to start doing more on ebay again. I do have some stuff at the local clothing consingment store, and lately I kind of "just trade". I did get some cash from it awhile back, but as the kids grow, I have just applied it as a credit when I get them something.