30 Day Challenge~ Day 24 ~ Date Night Birthday Celebration

As I write this post I am feeling a little unfocused, so I’m just going to give the basics. K?br /br /I didn’t get my house cleaned like I wanted because we had cheer stuff most of the afternoon. Wish I could tell you my real feelings about cheerleading, but I will maintain self-control. i{Breathe in…breathe out…}/ibr /br /The game ran a little later than we had hoped and my husband and I had to make it a surprise birthday party i{before the birthday girl showed up}. /iIt’s our date night and we agreed to go to the party.nbsp;iSo,/i we broke down and got the kids McDonalds for dinner. nbsp;i{hanging my head in shame…not really…}/ibr /br /We rushed home with our giddy kids and greasy food in hand and I ran to get the present together. The idea came to me thanks to Pinterest.nbsp;i{What is it about that website? You can read about my a href=”https://mydebtfreeroad.com/2011/09/30-day-challenge-day-12-my-pinterest.html”addiction here/a.}/ibr /ibr //ibr /div class=”separator” style=”clear: both; text-align: center;”a href=”http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-F3n0uBXc4Fg/Tn6MdQ2geTI/AAAAAAAAAqY/vSDquFICx7E/s1600/IMAG0451.jpg” imageanchor=”1″ style=”margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;”img border=”0″ height=”320″ src=”http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-F3n0uBXc4Fg/Tn6MdQ2geTI/AAAAAAAAAqY/vSDquFICx7E/s320/IMAG0451.jpg” width=”298″ //a/divdiv class=”separator” style=”clear: both; text-align: center;”br //divdiv class=”separator” style=”clear: both; text-align: center;”a href=”http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6jzIs17UZfI/Tn6MillScjI/AAAAAAAAAqc/MFlnluNes-w/s1600/IMAG0452.jpg” imageanchor=”1″ style=”margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;”img border=”0″ height=”320″ src=”http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6jzIs17UZfI/Tn6MillScjI/AAAAAAAAAqc/MFlnluNes-w/s320/IMAG0452.jpg” width=”254″ //a/divdiv class=”separator” style=”clear: both; text-align: center;”br //divbr /I originally wanted to find Pop Rocks and say “29 Rocks!” but do you know how difficult it is to find Pop Rocks?!? Who knew.br /br /It was a great evening of celebrating my friend’s birthday i{at a nice Italiannbsp;restaurant} /iand meeting some of their friends. My friends have great friends! 🙂 And as I stated in a previous post, on our date nights we allow ourselves a little spending.br /br /We did save money on babysitting because we used our in-house babysitter i{our daughter}/i and asked my parents to come over to supervise until she got her brothers to bed. i{My parents ROCK!}/ibr /br /All in all, not a bad day. And as the month winds down, the savings are really showing in our pockets!nbsp;nbsp;How about you?nbsp;Only 6 days to go!br /br /a href=”http://www.aghdesigns.com/images/blogs/siggy4.png” target=”_blank”img alt=”Anna” border=”0″ src=”http://www.aghdesigns.com/images/blogs/siggy4.png” //a