I have a new cell phone. Darlene, Jimmy's stepmother, sent it to me from Texas. (She happens to work for Sprint). She saw that the hinge was falling apart on my old phone and thought I could use a new one. How cool is that?!

It's skinny and it takes pictures. I feel so modern and hep. ;-)

Make that FOUR cars.

I just got off the phone with Jimmy. He's in the last hour of his twelve hour work day at the dealership. This is his second day and he's sold three cars already. After being warned he might not sell any for the first few weeks. In fact, he's sold the most cars of anyone at the dealership today, and if he can keep it up tomorrow, he'll be ( Read more... )

I could have sworn we had a bag of unpopped corn. I guess the popcorn ball dream dies until next year ( Read more... )

We're hoooooome. Fresh excitement from Alex about the new school, the playground is apparently cooler and she likes her new teacher even more. One of James' new friends gave him a mechanical pencil, and he's marvelling over it in a very business-like fashion while he does his math. Rachel's hair is looking better, (I washed it this morning with ( Read more... )

This was the coolest, most relaxed, easiest and most satisfying school day in my entire limited experience ( Read more... )