First off, Lillie is really close to being fully daytime potty trained. I say really close, because after bragging this morning that she WAS fully daytime potty trained, we had an accident. In my bedroom. On my rug. And I think she actually took off her panties to pee there, too. (Growls menacingly)
So she wore diapers the rest of the day. I wasn't up to dealing with it after an accident like that. So maybe that's throwing in the towel, maybe that's teaching her bad habits, maybe that's even begging her to regress, but seriously? Preggers over here has enough stuff to worry about without adding that on. And I hate yelling at Lillie, but I get upset over silly things like peeing on my bedroom carpet, ya know? So, diapers from 1pm on... oh well.
Secondly, I've been proud this whole time of sticking to my budget, not using our credit card at ALL, and generally being fiscally responsible for the last three months.
I fell off the wagon today.
That was kinda sucky. I mean, I didn't really splurge on unnecessary items... I went to a thrift store and bought the few remaining newborn clothes I absolutely HAD TO HAVE before the baby is born, I bought another maternity shirt and a pair of maternity work pants, another three pieces of clothing for Lillie, which her majesty helped me pick out, ... and a pair of really cute pink sparkley heels. I WILL POST PICTURES, I PROMISE. The heels are so so so so so cute. And pink. With sparkles. I have no idea when I will wear them. However, they only cost me $7.99. So it wasn't a total splurge? The total splurge was the amount of money I spent on newborn clothes. I comforted myself with the thought that they cost me at most 5/piece of clothing, with most of them being 1.99 or less.... but that does add up, sadly enough. REALLY CUTE CLOTHES THOUGH. You'll see pictures of baby (Alice, Audrey, Cordelia, Marcia Brady, whatever) wearing them, I'm sure, since they were all the height of awesomeness and I'll want to record that.
Steph did a much better job than I did at not spending all her money. Boo. I wanted company in falling off the wagon.
I knew it was coming though. Its not a "retail therapy" moment, since I'm not really extra bummed about anything, its just that this last week I've been thinking about all the things I still want to buy. Focusing on the have-not's instead of what I have. I've been trying to change that, but it didn't exactly work. I need to come up with a better way of focusing on what is important to me... or decide if what I think is important to me really is, I guess.
Thirdly, because my baking skills are so developed and awesome, I decided to join the monthly Iron Cupcake: Earth competition. In it, you are given one ingredient you absolutely have to incorporate into a cupcake, and then you bake it and take pictures and people vote and someone wins lotsa cool stuff.
I'm never going to win, I already know that, but I thought it would be interesting to bake a different kind of cupcake monthly. Since I like eating and all. Only, I don't have any cupcake pans. I know, I was shocked too. No muffin tins. Not even mini-sized ones. Weird, right?
But anyways, its hard to be proud.
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