Day 140: A Full Day Of Entertainment

The Son, The Daugh­ter, and I all spent the morn­ing dili­gently sav­ing money.  But the rest of the day was ded­i­cated to spend­ing it 

The morn­ing The Son and I ran to turn in his base­ball reg­is­tra­tion.  On the way home we stopped at Wamu where I made my own deposit (a por­tion of my pay­check into my per­sonal check­ing account) and, for The Daugh­ter, a $70 cash deposit into her sav­ings account.  Then we ran to The Son’s bank where he made a $93 cash deposit into his sav­ings.  The Daugh­ter appar­ently kept $9 in cash in her wal­let as mad money; The Son put $6 in his wal­let for the same purpose.

Movie The­ater — $22.50
I bought tick­ets for all three of us to see the new National Trea­sure movie.  The movie was fun; not as good as the orig­i­nal but okay as far as sequels go.  We don’t see many movies in the the­ater.  Typ­i­cally I pay for admis­sion and if the kids want munchies they have to pay them­selves.  The Son pur­chased a mas­sive size medium Sprite for a usu­ri­ous $4.50 and then had to make a bee­line for the bath­rooms imme­di­ately after the movie.  I believe that he very gen­er­ously shared the soda with his sis­ter and did not ask for any type of reim­burse­ment afterward.

Con­cert Tick­ets — $16.00
The orig­i­nal ath­letic sched­ule had The Daugh­ter play­ing in a game tonight but it was resched­uled and they played last night instead.  That freed up both The Hus­band and The Daugh­ter to come watch The Son’s con­cert.  We shouldn’t have but we headed for the exit after The Son’s group was done per­form­ing.  I know we should have stayed for the whole con­cert but, well, we all had rea­sons for pre­fer­ring to leave early.

Pizza joint — $16.15
I’d hoped to stop by Costco for a cheap pizza on the way home from the con­cert but Costco closes early on Sat­ur­day.  So The Daugh­ter and I went to a local piz­zaria instead and waited 1/2 hour for our pie.  We killed the time dis­cussing the progress of her 20+ page research paper.  She’s comparing/contrasting Barack Obama and John McCain — look­ing objec­tively at their posi­tions on three key issues.  She’s been doing research and watch­ing videos, etc.  It was nice to sit and chat with her and lis­ten to her thoughts and opin­ions.  It’s so amaz­ing to watch her start to blos­som and mature into a young adult capa­ble of inde­pen­dent, crit­i­cal thought and analysis.

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