Expensive two weeks

Yes....that WAS our T.V. until Cade was playing wii bowling with his brothers and the remote slipped through his hands and smacked the screen. When the T.V. is turned off you can't tell it's broken. This happened on Saturday, April 4th. The boys had a wrestling tournament so we decided to tape general conference and watch it later that evening. (For those unfamilar..general conference is held twice a year and was that sat and sun and we receive spiritual guidance from the leaders of our church.) I had to run an errand and Chad had the boys play the Wii until I got back. When I got home he broke the news to me. Anyone want a 5 year old? It is Chad and my fault because we don't enforce them wearing the straps around their wrists. So, if any of you have the Wii...make your kids wear the wrist straps!!! They're not all stories...the remote really can go through the T.V. I called the T.V. repair man and he said to find a big black trash can and throw it in and go buy a new one. Unfortunately there is no fixing this. So Sunday we decided we could at least listen to conference because you could still hear sound on the T.V...just no picture. Well, on Sunday morning we turned it on and even the sound was gone. So we set up the laptop on the kitchen table for the kids with their coloring books and Chad and I watched conference on our bedroom computer. I really needed to be uplifted that day and conference really helped.

On that same Saturday...Gavin broke my cell phone. In the last two weeks our washing machine, video player in the car, and video camera also broke. I was wondering what else could break down. Maybe I shouldn't ask that question out loud. EXPENSIVE TWO WEEKS.