Labor Day Weekend Goals:

I didn't have many, but here they are:

• Baby girl prep post - Check it out here
• Birthday shop for the nephew - He turned 3 on Friday so our son helped us pick out an outfit and a pair of shoes.  That's right - we are the relatives who buy clothes instead of toys.  We did try, but we are just too practical for toys.  My husband even said, "We have a reputation for practicality, so let's just stick with that."  Fine by me!
• Budget - We set two financial goals for the semester - one is to finish our yard and the other is to save enough cash to purchase Christmas gifts without couponing, deal-shopping, and giftcarding to come up with enough money for everyone.  We are planning on buying for all our grandparents and (shocker!) a gift each for our kids!  There is a first time for everything. :)  We also went over all our monthly numbers again to be sure this would work like we thought.  My husband should be getting his first paycheck this month, so we'll see how it goes!  We are also test-driving the month of September by recording every penny we spend - literally every penny!
• Switch our bedrooms - The baby is getting our room so that all of us can be upstairs without anyone having to share a room.  Our room just got a lot tighter, so to console ourselves, we bought a new bedding set.  We've been looking for one since we bought our house two years ago, and we happened across one this weekend:

         Obviously, we did not pay the price marked, but it was definitely a luxury purchase!

• Read - I did read some.  I am still on Unbroken, not because it isn't a great book - it is!  I just haven't had time to read.  I'd better hustle, because if I'm going to keep up with the kids at school I've got to be through the first two Harry Potters by 9/17 - yikes!
• Bake - I made a batch of banana bread from scratch this week.  Recipe post coming soon!
• Clean house - yeah...I saved this one for last.  I probably only need to do an hours worth of solid cleaning (less if my husband is home to help) and we can knock that out today
• Menu plan - I decided to put this one off.  Payday is in the middle of this coming week and we are out of grocery money, hence we will be eating whatever we can scrounge up until then!
• Something fun - we are going to see Bourne with our BFF this afternoon while the boy naps at Gigi's house.  Whoohoo!
• One more trip to the pool - this is currently scheduled for tonight.  The pool closes today so it will be our last chance for the year.