Splurging

There are certain parts of my life with Bill that are a little bit complicated, but for the most part, Bill and I try extremely hard to live simply.  Most of the time when fall comes around I refuse to sign my kids up for anything.  I don't do fundraising for schools - ever.  We refuse to have car payments, even if it means driving old cars that aren't fashionable.  Neither of us enjoy owning a home very much because it makes our lives more complicated with home improvements and caring about the state of the housing market. 

But everyone splurges once in a while, right?  So I was thinking about the things we have been splurging on lately...

• I'm not sending Ivy to preschool.  I get her all to myself until kindergarten.  And I'm determined to not feel bad about it!
• Bill recently paid Will $15 to watch him leave cookies on a neighbor's doorstep (doorbell ditching them, of course) while wearing Faith's pink backpack full of books and the ankle weights on his legs - all to see if he could get away in time with all that extra weight.
• In August Bill took me on a fancy date to the Top of The World restaurant, which rotates at the top of The Stratosphere.

Now that's some pretty good fun!