Cookie Time

Good morning!

It's a blustery start to the day. Yesterday we were at a high of 76 degrees, and this morning we are somewhere in the 30's with a wind chill of 26 degrees. Nice. We are supposed to pick up our jump start cookie supplies to sell to the masses. You heard me, 20 cases of cookies ready for the people, by the people. :)

My employer is buying families rodeo tickets this year. We are going to the February 5 show at 7:30. The first year that I started back to work, we won a family pack of box seats and the kids have looked forward to it every year. Haley has her outfit all picked out and ready to go. She said all she needs now is a pretty pink hat to go with it. Grammie bought Madison a down filled vest from Sheplers for Christmas and she is determined to wear the thing everywhere. Rebecca has her boots and jeans, she doesn't care about anything else really. (She's the low maintenance one out of the girls.)

Once I started packing up the Christmas decorations I moved right into spring cleaning. I am on a roll! The kids clothes are up to date, I have gone through all of our important papers and filed them or shredded them, and today I am going to sort through all the junk in the kitchen drawers. We dont actively use half of them and yet they are full of junk!! I have all of our tax deductible receipts and all I need are the w/9's from our employers and we can file our taxes for the year.

I was reimbursed for daycare expenses in December + tax return + bonus check= mini van!!
We have budgeted for a van at the end of March. I usually get my bonus check around that time and it would be the last piece to the puzzle. I am SO SO EXCITED! We have been waiting and saving for this for a while now and we are so close to getting it that I can't stand it.