I pulled up the local bank website and logged into our main checking account.

I wrote down our exact balance on a yellow legal pad.

Luke found the paper statements for the separate savings account we had opened four years earlier.

He smoothed the folded paper flat against the wood.

I wrote Tom Barrett on a yellow sticky note to remind myself to call the bank manager in the morning.

I stuck the note right beside my laptop screen.

Luke read off what his county shop paychecks had come to over the last quarter.