Sleep Over

Tonight my nephew is spending the night. It has been an eventful day. We started out with both of the nephews, but RM is still at that age that he says he wants to spend the night but he never does. As soon as Sheila got home from work we picked up both of them and headed out to Cheddars. I was smart enough to suggest that they both bring their Nintendo DS. It came in handy because we had a 45 min way. It ended up being 25 mins but 2 young boys waiting that long in a crowded restaurant would spell disaster. After that we headed over to Wal-Mart. They both wanted everything they saw. Well more RM than Emmanuel. I took them over to look at the fish while Aunt Sheila was getting some of the personal items we needed. They both wanted to buy a fish. I told them it would be fine if we had somewhere to stick them. It's to cold in my opinion to stick them out in the pond since they have been used to the warm water. I feel that would be better on the fish if we did that in the spring. Emmanuel pointed out that we could stick them in the aquarium downstairs, but I still declined. We saw some neat frogs that were about half the size of a penny (if not smaller) That would have been fine, but with the way things go with my luck I can only see disaster all over that. We ended up the night with a good old fashion pillow fight. I'm not sure who enjoyed it more, Me or Emmanuel. I'll admit this was my first pillow fight. I had a ton of fun. Of course there are a lot of things that happened this evening that I am leaving out, however I'm just giving you the highlights of the evening.

My day before the boys was very eventful as well. I got up at 5:00 this morning. Sheila was out the door around 7:00 (I think) and I decided that I had to much energy to just go back to bed, So I got out the paint brush and decided to tackle the hallway. We had a new thermostat put in about 3 or 4 months ago which left a very big and noticeable hole below the thermostat. I had to patch the hole and it has needed painting every since. I let the wall dry about an hour before I put the thermostat back on the wall. About 3 hours later I though it was getting very cold so I looked and it was 63 degrees inside. The heater wasn't working. So I called Sheila's Cousin who installed the new thermostat (He lives about an hour away) the short story is that I took pictures of the inside of the heater and emailed them to him. He viewed the pictures and told me what to do over the phone. He had me do everything he would do if he were here. We were able to temporarily fix the problem and he will come out on Monday to give us the permanent fix then. I am just shocked that I was able to fix the furnace myself (of course with a lot of help from Ron). What a day it has been. And how I worked in over 2 hours of exercise today is a miracle in itself.

Blessings till I post again.