All the stars aligned. It is a 3 paycheck month, and we got some tax refund, and some FSA reimbursements, and some paychecks from DH's side teaching job...

We will be taking in $18,770 after taxes this month! (though not enough is withheld from the teaching job, so we will owe a little more out of that.

That is very high! So we are going to fund most of our Rothes (hopefully we won't have to de-fund them later, we are cutting it close).

And I've been splurging some - my mom's friend works in Bergdorf Goodman, and they had a discount, so I'm getting a pair of Fendi sunglasses and some high-end make-up (Sisley, Amore Pacific, Dior) at 50% off.

And, I've had a wonderful cleaning woman help me for 2 days to really do a thorough spring cleaning, as I've been falling further behind. She worked 10 hour days, so $320 for 2 days.

I've also pre-paid another 2 days at the Ritz Carlton Shanghai for my July trip. I've found a very good price. I'm cash flowing a lot of our vacation before we go, to reduce the bills that we will get upon coming back (which will still be mighty big).

So I will enjoy this month, and will need to make a big adjustment for the next, more normal one.

And we only have one more teaching paycheck for DH. After that, we will again only have our salary to live on. And it has been many months since we lived on our salary alone. There was overtime, teaching job, and few other things. Now, opportunity for all that is no longer there, so we must cut back lifestyle we have already gotten used to.