Emmett had an okay day yesterday. His fever hit almost 101°F, which it's anything serious. What you need to remember though, is he's not sick. There's no physiological reason for him to be running a fever.  We had some rough moments, but the boys actually spent a few hours with my Mom.  When they got home, everyone had some downtime. I was able to work on a few projects around the house, and made it through another basket of laundry.  We ended up going to the park again after dinner. The boys were able to Pokémon hunt, and we walked a little over a mile. It may not seem like much but dragging along two kids heavily invested in Pokémon Go is a fricking challenge.  It ended up actually being…

Sometimes, we are totally blessed by the things that happen in our lives, and today was one of those days.  As we approach the end of the month, things get tighter financially. I was settling in for a week of tightly managing our grocery budget, when some amazing news arrived. Actually, we received two pieces of good news.  The first piece of life saving news came in the mail this afternoon. Apparently, we overpaid our auto and home owners insurance by a relatively significant amount, and State Farm issued us a refund check. Surprise... ☺  About the exact same time, I received an email notice that Google had made my monthly deposit. This was a surprise as well because according to my records, I missed the threshold for payout by…