Birthday, Budgeting and Business

Oliver turned 1 last week, and Karl and I took a week off work each to celebrate. We didn’t do much, just spending time together, in the garden, that sort of thing. Had a birthday BBQ with family this weekend to celebrate and managed to spend half the day on the loo and the other half alternately shivering or sweating while my body had a laugh at my expense dealing with some bug. Still, everyone helped out and everything went fine, although I’ve probably just infected my family with some dodgy 12 hour mystery illness.

With June having now arrived I’m cringing at 3 months worth of blown budget due to various big purchases and not keeping a tight rein over additional “just because” spending. Back to it this month – I’m going to try and drag out what’s in stock as long as poss to keep that food bill low this month, using whatever’s left to stock the stores back up and get the meal planning on the go again (having only been doing it half-heartedly for ages). I’ve got a post in the works about making money with ebay (or not) so that will give you something exciting to read :p

This month sees the end of my first year in self-employment. I am really pleased to say that it has gone better than I expected (financially) as well as being fairly draining, exhausting, frustrating and annoying at times. A bit like kids in that respect. Hopefully to celebrate I’ll be launching a new site at some point in the coming months over at my professional site along with getting some of my finished client work up there (assuming I get some of it finished ;))

June. Bugger. You know that means we’re nearly halfway to Christmas? Hahahahaha.

1 Comment

  1. Holy moly, has it really been a year already since Oliver joined your family and you plunged into self-employment? Seriously, where is the time going. Oh, and congratulations on both milestones! :)