September 5

Well, it's been a while since any requests for money, but I have a couple of items to report today: first and most exciting is that AD sold his tenth Entertainment coupon book, so he has earned all of the little prizes he was hoping for as well as a limousine ride!

Second: today's backpack pile included a flyer from the city of Wentzville Parks department itemizing all sorts of classes for which we could sign up, if we were so inclined. Sounds wonderful, but no thank you. The spreadsheet will reflect all of the classes - as rejected expenses. Not sure of a better way of recording items like these...Suggestions welcome!

So we opted not to spend $277 on the $5 Soapbox Race (that sounds like a bargain and like lots of fun, too. But you have to be 8 years old to race, anyway.) Or the $92 tennis class or the $55 self-defense hapkido class (again, this sounds great, but we're already currently enrolled in soccer) or the $15 cooking class or the $60 photography class or the $50 Young Rembrandts class. Upon closer examination, our boy is too young for both the photography and the art class, so to be fair I should revise the total $ in the spreadsheet to 162.