Our Store for the kids

Well it is 12:00 A.M. and I am waiting for my sweet wonderful husband to finish working so that we can both go to bed before the kids get up. So we finally opened our own store. With the horrible monetary mess that our country is in and the need for our Government to start printing its own money (yes our government does not print its own money) we get our money from the Federal Reserve which is privately owned. Huge long story but important to understand (read Web of Debt) and moving on... the store. I decided if the Government won't print its own money then I will print my own money and so I did. And it is awesome!!! Here's what we did: we made some great money (money is fun to make) Bears ($1), Horses ($10), Eagles ($100), and Lions ($1000) and then we told the kids that each week they will earn money and every Saturday the store will open. Today was the end of our second week (if you have questions just ask otherwise I will spare the details). But this is the funny part Raquel wanted the store to have a set of dishes for her to buy, so each dish is worth one horse. Amelia bought two dishes today and after about 10 minutes of playing with them she came to me and said " I don't want these anymore can I return them?" "Go ask dad" was my reply. Newell agreed to return the dishes with a 10% restocking fee. Then Amelia bought a bag of chips and 3 pieces of gum. Raquel saw all of this and wanted to return her 4 dishes but 3 of the 4 were sticky from Nathan so the store only agreed to return one dish and she bought 3 pieces of gum. Scott decided that he was going to save all of his money this week and buy something big next week so he just bought one sucker. And then he said "mom, the foolish man gave his money for a sucker." "What?!" was my reply. Yes, at 4 he understands that it is foolish to work so hard for money and then waste it with buying candy but at the end of the day he had bought: 2 bags of chips, 3 pieces of gum, 3 suckers, and 2 chocolate eggs. Nathan is just happy because whenever we pull out the store he gets treats!! I could write so much more, but I will stop here and go to bed.

These are the some of the new shelves we got, I wanted the kids to do the Brady Bunch thing where they all look up or down at each other but they didn't understand!


Just a kids picture one Sunday before church. Darren is my biggest baby yet, he and Nathan can share clothes now!!

Posting and FHE

Well I had switched my blog to be private but then I realized that I hadn't given any warning and had a few friends give me a hard time about not allowing them to see my blog. Sorry about that!! I have been really bad about posting because my computer is old (Amelia and Scott have newer computers than me!!) and it is a pain to get my pictures up so anyway the new computer is in the mail thanks to our tax return which we hope to get soon and after that transferring pictures should be a breeze. Hopefully that will help me, I am amazed at how faithfully so many of you are, I can tell that you all must keep great journals as well! I struggle at that too!
So tonight for FHE we are talking about our body and our spirit. I am making a chart one for the body and one for the spirit. Then we will talk about how we feed and exercise our body and how we feed and exercise our spirit. After that I will show them the chart and for the next week we will be putting a sticker on the body or spirit each time we feed or exercise it. If the spirit wins at the end of the week we will have a party (nothing too big). Meal time prayers won't count for feeding the spirit though. Exercising the spirit will be showing obedience and following promptings of the spirit. I am always amazed at how in tune the kids are. The other day in Primary, Amelia won the little competition that I had given them during singing time but when it came time to claim her prize she told me to give it to the other little boy. At home I told her how happy I was that she was so kind and she told me that the Holy Ghost had told her to make that decision.
Darren is crying so I have to go but at his 4 month appointment he was 20 pounds!!!!!!! No wonder he is in size 12 month clothes and no wonder I get winded just carrying him up the stairs!!! I am hoping that he is done with this GROWTH SPURT!!! =)