Clean up, Clean up
Every body do your share…
Well, I guess not Avie. Yesterday (forgot to post this before Ansen’s post!) we finally got around to cleaning up after our week of vacation and various traveling.
Challenge Complete!
It’s officially over! The $30/week challenge is over! I have proved we could do it and depleted our stores in the process, but it was a good cleansing. At last update I had $10 cash. I now know why I don’t use cash: I have no way to account for it. If I spend a dollar here and a couple at a garage sale… I don’t have any way to go back and track it.
Anyways… $10. With that $10 I spent $2.09 on a gallon of milk, $1.04 on tortillas, and $6 toward a dresser (the one I still need to post about). I have $.38 left and I guess the rest probably went toward tolls from last weekend. So basically I had a surplus of $6.87!!! Can you believe that I not only fed both of us on $30/week, but that I had $6.87 left over!?! I can’t.
Avie’s First Baseball Game
I kind of forgot about the whole July picture challenge. Sorry to double up on posts today, but I’m getting started on this a week late, so I’d better start before it’s not worth it!
Today’s photo:
Declaring our Independence…
from travel. This past week we have spent 14 hours on the road. It wouldn’t be so bad, except we have a baby who hates the car and doesn’t sleep for more than an hour. Needless to say, we are happy to be done traveling for a while. So happy, in fact, that we did pretty much nothing Saturday. Avie was the only one who got dressed today and that was only because she had a blow-out in her jammies.
But that is not to say that we didn’t enjoy our time with our family! To begin with, we went to Wichita to see my (Dri) family. My grandma was visiting at my parents the whole time, so we got to spend time with her. Apparently she used to always make cream puffs, but I don’t remember ever having her cream puffs. I guess she stopped making them at some point. BUT she made some for us and the were quite tasty! AND now I not only have the recipe, but I also watched her make them, so I can do it too!
Finding a solution
Well I’ve/We’ve been extra productive the last week or so. Wednesday Ansen had to burn a vacation day. It was super hot and I thought it’d be fun to go swimming, but he said it was “too hot to swim”. (Come again? Isn’t that what you’re supposed to do when it’s hot?!?) So instead, we cleaned the garage. It was kind of a back up plan because we were supposed to pull weeds from the back flower bed or the front flower bed… but Avie woke up as we were heading outside. So, we opted for the garage (for the shade) where she could hang out with us for a bit before her next nap… which was sooner than normal since her nap was short! I wish I had a before picture, but here’s the after…