Taking the Scenic Route

I really hate having to go back into ’spend no money’ mode.  Especially when I see sales on things we were wanting.  lol.  Gymboree had a great sale last weekend, and you could even get Gymbucks and I had to just drool at a distance at that new red gingham line and the apple dot bloomers and shirt.  *sigh* 

A little more important though, we are really starting to look at bikes.  Zane is working on riding a regular bike in OT and finally getting it.  We even live near a good bike trail, but right now nobody in our family has bikes.  We also need to get him decent mattresses (his was the cheapest available and feels like you are sleeping on a cardboard box…he keeps trying to sleep in Zora’s bed)  and a bed that either is a loft bed that we can make an enclosure underneath (what I think would be the best for him), or a tent of some kind above his bed or in his room someplace.  The thing is, it needs to be able to get super dark for him, so I will probably have to custom make something with room darkening, really opaque material.  That is why he keeps going into our closet…dark, quiet and cool in there.  He needs to have a space that Zora can’t come and disturb him though and there is no way to do that in our closet because it is connected to Zora’s room and there isn’t a door.  Go figure…one of the reasons I like this place is because we get so much more light in all the rooms, but I guess he needs to be able to retreat to a more cave like place sometimes.

I can’t spend a dime on anything that isn’t an absolute neccessity right now, even the food budget is back to nothing right now.  I had some ramen noodles that were packed away for supper tonight.  Back to mom and dad eating crap so we can make sure the kids eat healthy.  It shouldn’t last long, but it is frustrating. 

Trying not to worry.  It is just not a position I ever expected to be in again, especially not this soon.  Paying for the teeth stuff really knocked us back hard, and we still owe a lot.  We are having to suspend the rest of the work for now because we met the cap on the dental insurance and we don’t have the money to do it out of pocket right now.  I know that there is a great job out there that Zach will thrive in while he finishes up his thesis, but it is really hard to have faith that it will be a normal part of our routine soon.  Patience has never been my strongest trait, although God certainly has given me lots of lessons in it through my life.

On the good side, rent is paid until the end of June, and our bills have been either ahead or on time for all of our utilities, so we have a little bit of breathing room…not much, but we aren’t getting cut off notices.  There is still time for a relatively smooth transition into a new job.

In other news, Zora got my cold.  I feel like I am living in a sea of snot right now between my own chapped nose, and now her.  At least it is just snot, because there are grosser body fluids to be dealing with.  I just hope she is able to get better sleep than I have.  She hasn’t gotten to the coughing stage yet.  I am hoping she will skip that part.