Tomorrow is the first of this year's surgeries: G is having the ear tube that fell out but is now stuck in another part of his eardrum removed in the morning. With our FSA account, we should have enough to cover it without having to dip into other savings accounts. (I feel quite certain one of the other two will require something---tonsillectomy for N or ear tubes for M.....or perhaps both).
However, we've been having to dip into savings for all sorts of other things that have popped up. Like ants taking over our living room, requiring an exterminator to the tune of $175.
And the dead car battery on the morning of our trip last week. The van was packed, the kids were buckled in. I went to start it up in order to back out of the garage so my MIL could park her car in it while we were gone. No juice. D had to jump it twice to get it to Valvoline for a brand-spanding new battery. To the tune of $105.
And then we needed to get N a full-size mattress since her twin is too cramped when we try to read to her and G at bedtime. The crib she slept in as a baby converts to a full-size, and we had long ago purchased the accessories/rails to convert it. Of course, last night when D tried to put the frame together we discovered that Babies R Us sold us the WRONG RAILS, so the convertible crib is useless. Which meant I had to call the company that makes the crib to purchase the correct rails, to the tune of $80. And we have to wait 2-3 weeks for them to be delivered. And her mattresses were delivered today.
(And believe me, I've already spoken to a manager at Babies R Us so see about some kind of compensation for my troubles.)
I will be so glad when this money hemorrhage ends.
1 comment:
Yikes! I hate those periods of time in which it seems that money is just flying out of our hands. Even when the money is there in the savings account, it's still frustrating to have to spend so much of it in a short time, even for a spender like myself.
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