I love children's librarians. They're wonderful, hardworking, dedicated, sweet souls who want to do the best possible for their patrons. They give out good intentions, sunshine, and rainbows everywhere they go.

But not a one of them should ever be allowed to handle money. I'm sorting out expense sheets. They received gift cards to various places (Costco, craft stores, general Visa cards) for program expenses. We started with ONE template and master form to track expenses on. We now have 6 forms saved in five places with six different file names and six different tracking systems. Some info is on every form. Some of it is in one or two places. Some of it is nowhere. Pulling together a year end report may take weeks. These are excel spreadsheets with many many many tabs, some created at random.

And I'm pregnant but I could use a drink.

Fortunately everyone kept all their receipts. God bless librarians who never threw anything away and happily file into labeled folders. I could just recreate entirely from receipts. Might be quicker.