I guess its time to do some laundry when your 7 year old comes to you and says “Mom, I need to do laundry today because I don’t have any clean clothes to wear.”

Sigh… think I just heard the dryer buzzer.

On April 30th my 7 year old daughter received her First Communion. It was an early morning Mass followed by a Lunch reception at our house.

Everyone brought her a card that was filled with some kind of money. Overall, she banked $245 from her First Communion. She was thrilled (and so was I, this was exactly what she needed to start her savings account) that she had this much money. We had already discussed starting a savings account, which Mommy and Daddy would transfer her “allowance” to at the end of the month, providing she did all her Chores. (sidenote) We were going to transfer the money over anyway, since we had declared 2011 to be the Year of Savings in our house. We had opened an account so we could start saving for her.

Any-who, sitting in church on Sunday, exactly one day after she received her First Communion, getting ready to receive the Eucharist and she leaned towards me and whispered “I got $245 for my First Communion. What do I get for my second Communion?’

Oh geez……..