Day 72: Oysters, Hoodies, and Pain Reliever

Wal­greens — $6.45
Does any­one else have a 13-yo who can’t swal­low pills? In all hon­esty, I couldn’t either at that age. I can’t even remem­ber when I learned to swal­low pills but I think I may have even been in my 20’s. Any­way, The Son can’t swal­low pills and he’s still sick and feel­ing lousy. Typ­i­cally I’m not one to med­icate myself or my chil­dren but I like to keep basic meds on-hand just in case. We were all out of Junior-strength pain reliever so I made a quick stop and picked up a new bot­tle of Motrin ($5.99).

Safe­way — $51.67
The price of gas is inch­ing up. The Tank’s tank was pretty low and we have miles to go tomor­row. Plus the fact that despite the chill, tomorrow’s sup­posed to be chill­ier so I stopped for a quick (well, not-so-quick) fill up. I pumped 17.23 gal­lons @ 2.999/gallon. The odome­ter now reads 116,665.

Vit­a­min Cot­tage — $35.82
We were all out of a few sta­ples but didn’t feel up to mak­ing a seri­ous list or doing any type of meal plan­ning so I went armed with a very small list of essen­tials and kept an eye open for sales. I don’t know how long there’s been such a short­age of sale tags on the shelves.

• organic olive oil — $8.15
• Rudi’s bread — $4.09
• Amy’s frozen cheese snacks — $3.25
• Alta Dena ched­dar cheese — $5.19
• organic string cheese — $4.25
• gal­lon of Hori­zon organic 2% milk — $4.95
• 3 tins of smoked oys­ters — $1.69/ea (saved $1.98/ea.)

That’s a great price on the smoked oys­ters. The sale lasts through mid-December. I’m going to have to remem­ber to pick up a few tins for Santa — I’m pretty sure he’ll want to put a few in The Son’s stock­ing this year

Cello Teacher — $105.00
Check for 4 upcom­ing lessons. Tomor­row we’ll look at our cal­en­dars to see which weeks will be missed due to the upcom­ing hol­i­days. This check might very well take us to the end of the year.

The Daughter’s School — $90.00
The Daugh­ter approached me last night with an order form for sports team para­pher­na­lia. I took it to be a good sign that she was embar­rassed and hes­i­tant to show it to me. It means she’s tak­ing my budget-keeping seri­ously and had a clear sense of the grav­ity of her request.

She wanted to know if The Hus­band and I would pur­chase any or all of the avail­able team-related gear being made avail­able. The most expen­sive ($60) is a hoodie sweat­shirt in the team/school col­ors cus­tomized with her last name and jer­sey num­ber. Next was a pair of break­away track pants ($20) in the team col­ors. And finally a long-sleeved t-shirt ($10) with the team mascot/name on the sleeve and school logo on the chest.

The Daugh­ter said she’d be more than will­ing to count the items as her Christ­mas gifts this year.

I showed the list to The Hus­band and he didn’t bat an eye; just said fine, cut a check from the joint house­hold account. He’s so amaz­ingly easy-going. Actu­ally, he just loves being able to pro­vide these extras when they are impor­tant to the recip­i­ent. The Daughter’s hav­ing a great time attend­ing school (she was home­schooled for her first 8 grades) and he loves being able to pro­vide the expe­ri­ence. She’s hav­ing a great time par­tic­i­pat­ing in the school sports and he loves that he can facil­i­tate that.

The school’s ath­letic direc­tor didn’t get his stuff together early enough last year to make these things avail­able to the kids. The Daughter’s a Sopho­more and will keep the same jer­sey and jer­sey num­ber this year and the next two so what­ever we buy her now will still be applic­a­ble all the way through her senior year. And lastly, the school doesn’t have let­ters and there­fore let­ter jack­ets so this gear is in lieu of a letterman’s jacket.

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