Jan. 12 - $27.00 or so - gas
Jan. 11 - $59.00 Daycare & Toddler Class
Jan. 10 - $77.00 Health copay, drugs, fast food
Jan. 9 - $00.00
Jan. 8 - $16.30 Groceries
Week 1 total: $374.24

**2 no spend days**

Items bought new in 2007:
Nintendo DS accessories (2) (dh)
Underwear(dh)

Items bought used in 2007:
Nada

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Still driving dh's car - flat unattended to. HE decided to brave the kids today - so phew. Still not 100%, still hoping it goes away without further doctor visits though, of course. WOuld be nice!

My mom bought us Togo's for dinner last night, watched the kids, and paid some money towards Big Monkey's extra preschool day. She actually offered more and I refused. If I put it in savings I Would have added it to the challenge, but I didn't and probably won't. It's been such a spendy week, I won't even reach my original savings goal this month probably. But yay for moms!!!

Today looks like it will likely end up another fast food night I guess - we'll see... I'll be happy with mac n cheese from the box and we have enough food laying around but dh is a little more picky and having bigger withdrawals from lack of home cooking.

Oh yeah, so dh's car was pretty much out of gas and so I had to stop on the way to work today. All I can say is oh my goodness!!!!!!!!!! I don't spend a lot of time outside and don't have really wintery clothes, the weather is so mild for the most part. But I got out to pump gas and about froze my butt off. Thank goodness it was the small car and a quick fill up, though I guess I could have stopped at a few gallons and saved more for later - LOL. IT was COLD!!!! I just checked the weather and it said 37 degrees, but 28 degrees with wind chill. OMG! I am standing out there pumping gas with nothing but a light layer of clothing and a light sweater.

Thankfully it is nice and toasty inside!

Reminds me we got the gas bill - $100 for December. IT is usually our worst bill and more like $130 - I think it was a little lower than usual. BUT at this rate our next bill won't be any better. Brrrrrrrrrr...

We have been keeping the house at 68 and the last few days I felt a little chilly. I finally realized in front of the windows was a little extra chilly. My mom commented yesterday she felt cold which was wild because she is always hot and so I lowered the blinds in the family room to help insulate the windows a tad. We usually leave them up so the kids don't mess with them, so we'll see how that goes. But maybe it will help a bit. Anyway, now I See why - a little colder than usual outside too. We have double paned windows and all that - very energy efficient house, so when you feel cold in front of the window you know it is COLD out there - LOL.

I also got an e-mail about a freeze warning this weekend. I guess we really should have changed the flat yesterday - like we want to stand outside at all this weekend - brrrr. We are such whimps when it comes to the cold - us whimpy California folk!

Oh yeah - I took the baby to the toddler class yesterday and he LOVED it!!!! Same one big monkey used to go to and is basically discount gymboree - same thing but $8/week (used to be $7). Money well spent. I love to see him do so well with other kids. I just worry about him a little more because he is shy like me. HE is lucky he has a big brother and somewhat of a social outlet, I really wish I had more opportunity to learn socially younger, looking back. You know my mom was shy so I didn't get a chance to interact with other kids, so the cycle goes. I was really impressed how quickly he warmed up and felt comfortable there and how well he did with the other kids. IT was cute because we just wrapped up gymboree and maybe because the kids were a little younger at that point, but the parents REALLY hover and don't give the kids much room. I am more likely to sit back and let him explore, when he was ready, encouraging him because he was a lot more timid and clingy originally. Anyway, these parents yesterday were just sitting back letting the kids play, all about the same age, and it was so cute to see him interact with the other kids - he didn't get that so much with the hovery parents. SO overall I Was quite pleased and he had a blast until we had a leave and he SCREAMED all the way home - was not happy. That was the downside - LOL. But well worth it. Dh needs to get out of the house too so will be good for them.