Sunday Stroll

Our little family went for a nice long walk today with my husband's sister and her little family. We walked to a playground with a huge wooden structure for the three boys to run around and climb on. They had a blast. Us old folks tired ourselves out chasing the two 2 year olds around (my other nephew is 8). After plenty of time at the playground we walked down the board walk and got ice cream. The three of us spent $10.28 on ours. My little guy had his very own kiddie cup of chocolate vanilla twist. The ice cream place put tiny candy eyes on top where a cherry might normally be. It was adorable watching him eat his big boy ice cream with his big boy spoon. It's the first time he's had his own dish at an ice cream place so it was memorable for at least me.

My husband is at a movie with a buddy now. The total spending for today is the $10.28 for the ice cream. (My husbands movie spending does not come out of my daily budget) My hubby had talked about wanting to go to the zoo today, or we may have driven out of town to a touristy shopping beach town not too far away. They have a really huge sand dune there that's "fun" to climb up. The walk around town, playground, and ice cream were plenty fun family time. I'm quite thrilled with the spending total for this planned no spend day. I had imagined it would come in much closer to $30, $40, or $50. Whoo! (and I got my flurry too) It's practically a miracle that we didn't eat a meal out. We always eat out on a "family" day. And none of us are feeling the lesser for it. Now I'm left wondering if I need to make an enormously filling breakfast every time the two of us have a day off together (we virtually never have a day off together). That might be why we didn't dine out though... hm

In other news I'm absolutely in love with our tiny strawberry garden and my kiddo loves checking it out with me everyday to see how many berries there are; are any red yet, and so on. I love it!!!

Average daily spending for June: $14.90