This week I began my $30/week grocery budget challenge so I can save the rest to go toward my outrageous dental bill from last week. It’s sort of retroactive, in that I hope to only spend $120 for the whole month of May even though I’m starting in the middle, and it does include any previous food that we have stocked up from last month. (That’s why there’s a “?” next to week 1, because it’s more like week 2 1/2, but it’s just the beginning.)
The Sunday before last, my cracked tooth started hurting. If you’ve ever had a toothache, you know how dominating it can be. It’s hard to even think at times. But… we were leaving on vacation on Wednesday and that didn’t leave a lot of time to fix things. I called the dentist and they assured me they could get me in and take care of it last Tuesday.
Tuesday I went in and was informed that not only did I need a root canal (!!) but the dentist that does those would not be in the office until this week! At first they said they could either give me antibiotics or send me to another dentist (in Fayetteville, 40 minutes away) and they could do the root canal so I wouldn’t be miserable on vacation. Getting it done soon sounded pretty good to me, but then they said the other dentist wouldn’t have time to do a root canal. They could do an “IND” where they cut your gums to relieve the pressure until a root canal can be done. The problem is that it wouldn’t fix the problem, it would be quite a bit more expensive AND it would be in Fayetteville. So I opted for antibiotics and a root canal Monday.
Last week Ansen’s parents went on vacation to Branson and asked us to join them! We had a great time, enjoyed WAY too much food and did a good amount of shopping. Of course, I forgot to take many pictures, but (thanks to Auntie and Uncle) we did get some pictures of the one thing I was most excited about: Baby’s first swim!
I’ve been meaning to post this for a while, but I was a little preoccupied with getting ready for Branson. But we made it to Branson, so I’m going to take a few minutes to post about last weekend. Last weekend was Siloam Springs’ Dogwood Festival. So the outlaws came over and we went downtown. There were about a million booths and all kinds of crazy fried food, including fried pickle on a stick, fried alligator and fried snickers. We stopped at one booth and got a a couple of bows and then we stopped at Heather Hill and got this adorable bow!
So after a great week, Avelea decided she was going to be a bit clingy today, but somehow, I got a lot done!
To begin, yesterday, I downloaded How To Make Iced Coffee and decided to try cold brewing coffee. It’s not hard, you just have to plan ahead. To start, you put 1/4 c. of coffee grounds and 1 c. cold water to sit for 10+ hours. The eBook says you can do it in any container and strain it, or you can put the grounds in a filter that you dip into the water. I did mine in my french press over night.
Then this morning I pressed it and put it in a coffee cup to refrigerate and save for later…