Curses, foiled again!

OK. I have been trying to post for weeks now. (Sorry to my loyal fan base who I am afraid I may have lost during this brief hiatus.) I promise some fun posts are forth coming. If you can't wait until then check out my sister's blog for a fun post at http://wholewheatbread.blogspot.com/2008/09/bonding-with-six-year-old-boy.html .

Anyway, here are my excuses in chronological order. In case you were wondering. I thought they were pretty good and quite plausible. This time it really wasn't procrastination. (Really, I promise!)

1. We had Rick's 2 sisters and their families to visit and we were the hosts. In other words lots of pre-cleaning, cooking and post-cleaning time involved. (But worth it all!)
2. My LCD screen on the laptop (where my pics are kept) had to be repaired which required sending the computer away for a few days.
3. We spent a few days at a cabin in Island Park with our parents. Again, lost of planning but very much worth it.
4. Rick's office was burglarized. (Is that a word?) His computer and operatory laptops were stolen. So I have been without the laptop (where all my pics are kept) all day so he can have a computer at work and then Rick has been working on the laptop at home in the evenings catching up on all his charting.

So as soon as the new computers come I should be up and running again with funny tales to tell.

An interesting side note on the event listed as #4. Rick was planning on working on the night of the burglary at his office. But I really wanted to have date night since it had been months since we had gone out just the two of us. As luck would have it, I was able to get a babysitter and we went out to eat and it was wonderful. And as luck would have it, during that short 2 hour time span from when Rick left the office and returned to work he was robbed. What does that mean?

Tooth Fairy Requests

So Lindsey lost another tooth - much to Jacob's chagrin. He wants desperately to loose a tooth and is sure that some are "getting loose, sort of."  This time Lindsey wrote a note to the tooth fairy with an interesting request. 

The note read:

  "Dear Tooth Fairy, Could you please pierce my ears. Just one hole in each ear. Thank you. Lindsey Ballard p.s. I still think that you are real." 

(A little side note here. Much to Lindsey's angst, we (I) have made it a rule that we don't get our ears pierced until we are 12.) Obviously that girl thinks the tooth fairy has a lot of power to overturn her parents' ruling. Lindsey had to be content with $1.30 and a note from the tooth fairy. 

The note read: 

"Dear Lindsey, I was unable to pierce your ears as you were laying on one of them. I couldn't get my ears pierced until I was 12 and now I am over 1000 old. The Tooth Fairy P.S. Don't tell anyone how old I am."

In the morning, even though her wish was not granted, all was not lost as Lindsey had a mysterious note from the tooth fairy - which we couldn't read - and Lindsey got the "most money ever for loosing a tooth."