bananiem said:
Unfortunately dd's increase in skating has tapped into our vacation account. Grrrr....I mean, I love to watch her skate and she's getting so good and she enjoys it so much. I just wish it didn't cost so much!
Skating is one of those ultra-expensive sports. Glad my DD didn't end up doing it. I think she would have if she had of started that early. Instead she started gymnastics, which wasn't her thing. When she started skating she was asked to get more serious about it, but by then she was also taking horseback riding lessons and would had to of given that up and she didn't want to. But if she had of started ice skating when she was young it would have been a different story. But it all worked out and it saved me a lot of money (not that horseback lessons were cheap, but she didn't keep it up forever--a couple falls and she gave it up...).
Our most expensive thing (besides college tuition, which I'm in denial about

) is my 12yo's select baseball, which is expensive, but not as bad as ice skating. I don't even know how much we pay a year, but it seems like we're always paying for something or other. We owe $300 now since they ended up hiring a coach, which they weren't going to do.
Jasmine, no doubt the dancing banana represents excitement...just my point, excuse the pun!!!

I'm laughing out loud now! The cat is looking at me funny.
PhD, I have so much to do to get ready it's not even funny! I need to print out my packing list and get busy. I'm still feeling under the weather and need to get well so I can get busy. Instead I'm just slowly plugging away and keeping my head above water. Trying to keep the house from falling apart, the laundry done, etc, so I can just throw some things in a suitcase and go. At least since we're not all going it shouldn't be too big of a deal.