Home improvement can be such a drag. I thought my washer had a leak and bought a new one. As I was creating a mess trying to get the old one out, I noticed that the sink our washer drains into had a bad plug at the drain. It was the sink that was overflowing! It took 5 minutes to clear the drain and about 3 hours to do and undo all the unnecessary junk. Ugh!

Today was also tough because our children got no dessert and no movie. It was a punishment for displaying a bad attitude yesterday. Aaron took the lesson well and came around. Shannon intensified her resistance. It was tough, but she became downright sweet by the end of the day. She has a tough time submitting to authority, but we can't let that shape her destiny. Please pray for our precious litttle girl. I am sure she wants dessert again before college.

I know most people only visit this blog to see pictures of our adorable children so here goes. The first one is Shannon with all her little people displayed in her Barbie house. The boy with her is Caleb Schans. He just moved out of the neighborhood this week much to our children's chagrine.



The next one is a model of the solar system that Aaron made for fun Friday. He used the string from his marble game as the orbit for Mars. All the planets are marbles and the sun is the shooter.