My brother and I run the fundraising committee at the kids' school...well, we are the only two people on it, so I guess we run eachother. First full day of school yesterday and we were right back at it. We've decided to only do 3 fundraisers this year so it should be pretty easy...they all sell well and we've done them before and, although time consuming, they're not difficult. I'm looking forward to working with my brother, too. We have always been close and he lived 3000 miles away for about 10 years and I really missed him. So glad to have him live so close to me now.

Yesterday was not a no spend day as I had hoped. I spent $8.00 on groceries-big bag of rice, macaroni and cheese, and shake and bake (not a necessity, but soooo good). I also had to hand in $35.00 for kindergarten supplies for the year. Today I'm going to sign the kids up for their fall activities so that will cost about $500.00, but will be spread out over the next few months. They each must pick one activity to be involved in, and are allowed to do two.

Ds11 has a periodontist appointment today. Apparently he has thin gums and needs some minor surgery to repair this. This will be very interesting, as a simple filling is enough to revert him back to the tantruming stages of a terrible two year old. He simply cannot stand having his mouth worked on, which will be great because he gets braces in the new year! Poor guy!

I'll plan for a no spend day tomorrow.