How are you guys doing refilling the Ffef

Slow going. With travel costs on both sides we didn't have any snowball last paycheck. This check I am unsure of since we still need to receive our final bills for the cell phones, cable, electric, natural gas, etc. I have them budgeted for their previous amounts even though we canceled midmonth. Once May starts, those bills are paid and the deployment pay starts. it is a $2,000 a month excess starting in May that will go to the ffef.

sounds good. I've been pretty frugal myself and stashing cash while DH is gone. It's much easier when i only have myself to keep accountable andsbaby to keep me home more than usual. We have a laundry list of "wants" to pay for when he gets back so I'm trying to pad our savings now.

I just want to thank both your families for your service and sacrifice!!!

You are welcome coingirl. I always feel it is much harder on him than me.

Definitely much harder on him than me. He is working 6 twelve hour shifts in a row (120degree temps) gets one day off then back to it. He showers outside and has to fight a sand storm at 2 am just to go pee. I have a cake walk compared to that.