The Dog Ate My Wallet

The Dog Ate My Wallet

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Home Inspection

Today was the home inspection for our foster license/home study. For those who are wondering, yes, we passed. We are essentially done with everything we can do on our own at this point. We have to wait for J’s background check to come back (they messed it up and had to redo it). Then, our social worker completes her report. She calls us in to review it. She submits it to her boss and then submitsread more…

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Sunday Evening Post #43

Day Amount Place Category Tuesday $66.00 Diablo 3 Allowance Wednesday $192.00 Amazon.com House Friday $35.00 outback Eating Out Saturday $15.00 mattress recycle House $30.50 buffalo wild wings Eating Out $54.00 Gas Car Sunday $53.00 Gas Car $63.00 Target House $44.00 Lowes House I actually felt really in control this week. I didn’t spend any money Monday-Thursday. C bought Diablo 3, but that was planned, and he’s the one that placed our Amazon order on Wednesday. Theread more…

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Sunday Evening Post #42- I spent the weekend at the beach

Day Amount Place Category Tuesday $3.28 Safeway Groceries Wednesday $4.23 Cafeteria Allowance Friday $163.36 CostCo Groceries   $5.90 Post Office MIL   $62.08 Safeway Groceries Saturday $7.98 IGA Groceries Sunday $5.00 Internet Allowance   $61.00 Lowes House Felt much more in control this week. There were two days where we didn’t spend any money at all. Tuesday and Wednesday were small amounts (though one was lunch out for me). We also got everything mailed off toread more…