You know you've ruined your children when...

We all know that recovering from a financial loss is hard. We try not to let it affect our children. We try to be subtle. We try to still teach values and restraints when it comes to spending money. Well, we were hit hard (as I've mentioned before) and have obviously not done a very good job of being subtle about it. Gwendalin has become very concerned about our financial wellness. Here are the two scenarios I am referring to. Scenario #1: I got a babysitter to go out with Travis for my birthday last weekend. As I took her home I got this story.
Gwennie asked the babysitters "are you going to take money from my mom when she gets home?" and then before there was an answer - she continued "because it would be really nice if you didn't take her money because she doesn't have a lot."

I was mortified when she told me this on the drive home. Luckily I love this girl and she and I have a pretty candid relationship. So- it blew over pretty easily.

Scenario#2: My kids stepped on some landscape curbing next door to our house while it was still wet. It caved in a bit. After some lecturing and consequences, we told them that they were going to have to pay the neighbors back to fix it out of our "vacation jar." Hunter was great with that..."OK, let's go give them some money..." Gwendalin fired right back at him "NO!, we can't! I have looked in mom's wallet and there are no dollars!"

Poor little thing...she is so concerned for us. We have tried to keep it down low - but apparently we have sucked at it. Oh well....good thing kids are resilient!