The snow finally melted, and we finally made it out of the house. We did have to spend some unplanned money this first week in addition to the normal groceries and gas type stuff:

– $10.00 the insurance company didn’t cover for the tow truck.
– $0.50 for the pay phone to call daycare lady so she’d know when to meet us at the end of her street because their driveway was so bad only 4WD could get through.
– $2.00 for a parking permit at work because we forgot to take my permit out of the car when we took the truck to work on Thursday (actually, I still owe my coworker for that).
– $10.00 for lunch on Friday because I packed Andy a spoiled lunch, and I really had to get out of the office.

Not so bad. Definitely could have been worse. We almost had to buy a dryer because ours conked out on Wednesday (what a week), but daycare lady just got a new washer and dryer Friday, and she gave us their old one. We picked it up today, and yeah it’s old, but it works!

We also picked up an armoire to serve as our (mostly Andy’s) closet since our bedroom doesn’t have a closet. It’s really an entertainment-type armoire, but we got it for fairly cheap from my boss. Andy put a pole in, and it works just fine. Now he doesn’t have to keep his clothes in Anya’s room anymore, and I get his dresser drawers for my stuff. Yay! (I’d paid for it two weeks ago so no moratorium violation.)

And finally, we picked up Anya’s new bed frame Friday. It’s an early birthday gift from Andy’s mom (so no moratorium violation), and Anya really likes it. It’s not put together yet, but when it is we’ll put up a picture. It has drawers!

Again, what a week!

One of the neat things about this adventure is that we’ve been trying to use what we have in the freezer and pantry. I made an apple pie today from some apples I canned when we first moved here. Or maybe even before? Hm. Andy made some chili with a bunch of the beans, and I made cornbread to go with it. Yum!

So that ends week 1. It wasn’t too hard not to buy stuff, and it’s definitely fun to say, “Moratorium!”