Happy Feb. 1! I don't know about you, but each month, the first day of the month is a clean slate to me. It's time to start over fresh. Eat healthier, exercise more, stress less. I'm going to try to do all of those things, but my main focus for this month is to spend less money on my lunches. We had been doing a lunch group at work, but I'm not sure that's going to happen much this month because we're all so busy. So, I'm on my own to eat healthier and more cheaply. I'm going to track how much I spend every day.

Monday 2/1:
Lunch from Target

1/2 ham & cheese sammie: $1.49
macaroni salad: $1.49
20 oz Pepsi: $1.39

Total: $4.37

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I seriously have *no* clue how I could spend this much at H-E-B this month and still can't for the life of me think of anything in the pantry or fridge I can make for dinner tonight. It baffles me.

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I'm trying to be positive this morning. Last week SUCKED big time. The kiddo was sick starting the previous Friday (1/15), and that meant that my holiday last Monday was spent taking care of him instead of me. Yes, I know I am a Mom now and that's how it is, but it didn't make it much easier. Work's been ridiculously busy, too. Even though I only worked 27 hours last week, it felt like 60.

So, it's a new week, the kiddo's better and back at daycare, and I'm trying to be positive at work. I was up at 5:00 this morning with Jack, but I'm going to try my best to push his wake-up time to 5:30 so I can start working out via the Wii Fit at 5:00 every morning. Thanks to Kat for the inspiration to do 30 minutes of activity every day. If I can't do it in the morning, I'll just have to do it in an already-packed evening schedule.

So, hope all of you are having a good Monday morning, and let's all stay positive! :)

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