I'm broke, and it's lent

Tomorrow my son will be celebrating his half birthday as he turns six months of age. After his birth, and my return to work three months ago I started to realize just how wasteful my husband and I were with money. Apparently we were loaded before, and just didn't know it. In the course of the past three months we have become broke...mostly because of my brief hiatus from my daytime job, and the fact that I stopped teaching my adult English class at night. With a few past due bills giving us the swift kick into reality that we needed, and the baby sleeping through the night we realized that we really needed to start cutting corners. So what corners can you cut, when you already live on the cheap? Our one vice was going out to eat, or ordering in. In fact, since I had given birth the pizza guy and I were on friendly terms. And really who can blame me? I was exhausted, I still am exhausted. Anyway, a few weeks ago I realized that lent was fast approaching and even though I am not particularly religious, and I was never really raised in a household where we would make promises for lent. I thought it would be a great challenge to hold off on eating out for 42 days. We started two weeks early, and have been cooking all meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner at home. My husband and I didn't really set any rules before we started, but any cutting back on dining out will be beneficial for both our pockets and our waistlines. We are officially two weeks into lent, and I will admit it is incredibly hard not to pick up the phone, or just pick something up for dinner. I will also admit that we did "cheat" by going out on a pre-arranged double date to Anthony's Coal Fired Pizza, and there was this one lunch out last week at Ollie's because I had a professional development training I was attending in downtown, but other then that we've been good. As for dinner in? It's been great. I already loved cooking, I just needed to plan my workday a bit more which would leave me with a bit more time to actually spend at home and cook a meal, plus complete all of my baby related tasks as well. Anyway, this space will be used to document my journey visually for the next few days, and who knows maybe it will stick.