TUES NOV 11

From Mom,

School done except for Josiah's piano today and independent reading for both today. He is practicing now so we can go bowling. We spent a couple of hours raking today and hope to do a bit more after bowling. Dad is working on the TV/Video problem now. They got it back to picture so Josiah could play games but no sound (yesterday). This morning Josiah used the same password we had been trying yesterday for the computer and it worked. Who know why. We did get a message today about error problem to send to Microsoft so obviously something wasn't right last night. All is well and the kids were relieved to hear from you.

Hannah played in a puddle today and mysteriously got wet, all the way to her skin. Imagine that! She crawled in bed with me this morning and we hud under the blankets so Grandpa had to find us when he came out of the bathroom.

Noah did some raking today and was very possessive about "his" rake. (I bought 3 more yesterday). If they had had a 4th available I would have purchased it but we bought them out except for the $14 ones. Grandpa sometimes uses the snow shovel and moves the big pile while we rake.

Michaella wants to know what day you are zip-lining. The reason we didn't call you is because we couldn't get it to work, even using the long-distance operator. She gave us the country code and verified how we should dial but it wouldn't work. We tried using both the cell and the land lines. The kids were very disappointed. They want you to call them.

Josiah went to bed early again last night because he was sad. He told us, "1st the TV wouldn't work last night. Tonight the computer won't work so we can't blog. Tomorrow we'll probably have a thunder storm and the power will go out and the next day Grandma or Grandpa will get sick." I think these very pessimistic forecasts probably came from big sister. He wasn't sad enough already! Her comment today, "You don't know how much fun it is to scare your little brother!" His gullibility reminds me of his mother.

Jon and Katie are in process of signing new purchase agreement on their house. This one looks very possitive. Closing is set for Dec 15 with possession 7 days later. If all goes well, they will probably move the week prior to closing so it isn't so close to Christmas.

Must leave for bowling. See ya and have fun.