The Receipt in the Gray Jacket
The Corolla.
The Honda.
The 401(k).
The two 529s with my children’s names on them.
And then, on a second sheet, because I could not stop, I started the other column.
Sixteen months of childcare at what the market rate would have been.
Twenty-two round trips to Arthur’s physical therapy at mileage.
The nine years of every household administrative task — the insurance renewals, the pediatrician, the school forms, the taxes, which I had prepared myself every April for a decade.