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!!
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