Day 95: Hamburgers and Granny Nightgowns

Wendy’s — $4.06
Din­ner for The Son.

If you’re a reg­u­lar reader you know that nearly every Wednes­day we stop by Wendy’s and pick up some din­ner for The Son in between his cello les­son and orches­tra rehearsal.  Well today when we got to his les­son I dis­cov­ered that I’d for­got­ten my purse.  Big Bum­mer.  So instead of stop­ping by the Wendy’s right around the cor­ner from his les­son, we had to go all the way back home for my purse and then head out for orches­tra from home.  Think of it as hav­ing to travel along the X and Y axes instead of tri­an­gu­lat­ing and trav­el­ing the hypotenuse.

As a result, we ended up going to a Wendy’s near home instead.  Curi­ously, The Son’s 2 Jr. Bacon Cheese­burg­ers and medium root beer cost $0.20 more at our local restau­rant than they do at the Wendy’s near cam­pus.  I pulled out our receipt from last week and dis­cov­ered that his medium root beer cost $0.20 more tonight.  Either the price of soda has increased or this restau­rant sim­ply charges more.  I’m curi­ous to see what the price will be next week — pro­vided I man­age to remem­ber my purse next week and we don’t have to come all the way home again :-p

Mar­shalls — ($14.04)
Finally returned the ath­letic “swish” pants I bought for my nephew.

Mar­shalls — $18.36
I prob­a­bly should have just left the store after return­ing the pants — but I didn’t.  I ended up find­ing a long flan­nel “granny” night­gown in the most adorable scotty-dog print for The Daughter.

For some as-yet-undiscovered rea­son, The Daughter’s bed­room gets much colder than the other two bed­rooms in our house.  I mean much colder.  So on cold nights The Daugh­ter likes to put on an extra layer — a flan­nel night­gown over her Hanna long johns.  She has two night­gowns — one of which was mine and is, I kid you not, no less than 25 years old.  Need­less to say, it’s not in the best of shape.  Last Christ­mas I found one almost exactly like it — down to the col­ors in the plaid fab­ric.  Tonight when I saw this adorable scotty pat­tern, I knew she’d either love it or hate it and, if she loved it, could really use another night­gown.  She loved it.

I con­tem­plated giv­ing her the night­gown for Christ­mas but decided against it because it would upset the bal­ance I’ve achieved between how much I’m giv­ing her and how much I’ve found for him.  I don’t worry much about giv­ing them the same dol­lar value in gifts for Christ­mas but I do try to give them roughly the same num­ber of gifts.

Related posts:

1. Day 102: Co-pay, Quick­sil­ver, and iTunes
2. Day 186: Fast Food
3. Day 88: Din­ing, a Dona­tion, and Floor Cleaner
4. Day 165: Lunch, Din­ner, Gas, & Music Lessons
5. Day 158: Home Improve­ments & Dining