not so special update

hayley was sick yesterday

like very sick

thankfully i had some disposable diapers and wipes on hand or i would have been washing diapers all day.

she's much better day thankfully.

tom stayed home today to help out. i'm thankful that tom has a job, where he can not only take off when he needs to, but taking off does not affect his paycheck at all.

i wanted hayley to be able to rest all day, which wouldn't have been possible if tom didn't stay home. he took jonas to school and picked him up. then he watched the kids while i ran the few errands i had planned for the day.

harris teeter is running super double coupons.

i was able to stock up on salsa, juice, cat/dog treats, yogurt, cereal, starbucks bottle fraps, and school snacks for jonas.

i spent around 8 buckish..i cant get to the receipt right now.

i got raisin bran crunch for 34 cents. jonas' school snacks were all free, as were the cat treats, my fraps were 69 cents.

they only let you use 20 coupons at a time so i will use more when i do weekly shopping saturday, and hit it up one more time before tuesday.

we got our new washing machine last saturday. i love it! i no longer have to shop vac out a drip pan every 2 loads! it's sooo much nicer and worth the money that was spent.

colt is doing great. he has come out of his shell so much the past 3 weeks. he is still very skittish around other dogs (even little dogs) and people. he's good with kids from the start and he gets ok with adults after they pet him. puppy training courses at petsmart are in the near future. he's smart, he's learning all the commands we are teaching him, but he needs to work on his anxiety issues.

so far, weekly grocery shopping is much easier than bi monthly. staying in town to do the shopping is nice. we are staying right on budget if not way under. i've also started paying for groceries with cash and saving all our dollar bills and change. we've been doing that for years, but when you mainly use debit cards there isn't much change.

i've been trying to sneak little ways of saving money into our lives, like withdrawing an extra 20 with the grocery money and putting it in the kids bank. and when i transfer jonas' school tuition and our rent into its account, i've been adding an extra 25. not sure what the money will be used for.

last year we used all the extra cash for christmas so thats probably what will happen this year too.

not much else to report

the kids are sleeping and tom and i are watching the olympics.

men's halfpipe finals coming up

then 500m short track and 1500m relay in speed skating

i think shaun white could play tommy in a 'tommy' remake ('tommy' being the who rock opera for those who don't know)

lets go ohno!

and white!

and vito!

and bretz!

and lago!

davis already pulled gold for us in 1000m speed skating.

and von got gold for women's downhill

too bad our girls lost in curling...

i like curling