3 a full list or inventory: a compendium of their complaints.
I take a lot of photos during the week. At current count there are over 7,000 pictures on my phone. I know. Anything that catches my eye that I think is interesting, or just a memory that I’d like to keep. However, they usually sit in my phone and no one sees them except me and my immediate family; when I force them to sit and look at them with me occasionally. I do share some of them on my Instagram, in case you’d like to follow me over there. Anywho, I thought that I would give myself a sort of week in review to look back at. Who knows, maybe this is something I will actually remember to do each week for once!
Here is a peek into our week, in no particular order:
I actually got this in the mail from our local tax office. I paid our taxes and apparently I shorted them $2.19!!! Holy moly, they are going to go broke for sure. 😯 No worries, I sent them their due immediately. Sigh.
What the house still looks like when there is a birthday right on the heels of Christmas. Some years Liv wants the tree gone before her birthday, but other years she wants it still there. 
21 years. Where did the time go? Also, she is still asking for cheesecake instead of a birthday cake. This year it was strawberry.
Another recipe that looks very yummy to me! This one is from my giant pile of magazines, particularly the Food and Wine from December 2020.
I painted my toenails for the first time in six months. I’m a weirdo, because I love to see my toenails painted but I can’t stand to have it on my hands. Look for another color next week. I know that you will wait with bated breath!
Three little pigs. When we adopted the babies, they told us to feed them soft food at least once a day to make sure that they were getting enough water. I have no idea if that’s true or not but we did it every day and we just never stopped. Koshka added himself to the daily ration. Now it’s their morning special treat, but as you can see little Leo is already eyeing Hazel’s bowl and he hasn’t even finished his.
Last but not least is the amount of money I spent on groceries this past week. I think that I’ll keep a running tally here for the time being. If you were anything like our house this past year, the grocery budget went out the window of 2020 around the end of May. I didn’t keep track of ANYTHING about our grocery budget and when I added it all up for the year, the amount that I spent on just groceries absolutely astounded me. It was on AVERAGE about $1,000.00 a month. I’ll wait while you pick yourself up off the floor……
For our family of four, that number was way, way off kilter from previous years. But so was the entire year. This year, my plan is to not restrict ourselves from the things that we want, but I most definitely want to see what that number looks like each month. Make sense to you? It does to my wonky brain, so we’ll see what’s what in the next few weeks.
So. What happened in your neck of the woods last week?
If you are interested in what’s been happening in previous weeks, you can them all here.
| 
A new to us type of Capri sun, Buddy fruit tubes, and green tea for 33 cents. I have learned that if we haven’t tried something before to cautiously only buy one. There is nothing worse than not liking something and having six boxes of it. something we did buy cases of were the veggie Capri Sun. Liv loves those things and so did my niece and nephew while we were on vacation, so that’s something I bought in bulk. They were 99 cents a box!
Bacon bits for Denton and Olivia. I hate these things, but they both LOVE them. Coconut oil to take my makeup off at night, a new to us type of Vienna sausages for Denton to try and kraut for our kraut and weenies.
Velveeta shells and cheese for soup beans night, town house crackers and more maple syrup. We go through a LOT of maple syrup at our house. But we also eat Mrs. Butterworth’s too. Balance right? Haha.
Unfrosted Pop-tarts for Denton $0.99, cereal for $0.79 and $0.99, glass bottles of lime juice for $0.50, Godiva chocolates $0.99 and $1.49, Thomas Everything Bagels $1.49 and Velveeta shells and cheese $1.49. You know, the necessities. 
