Saturday

My "e" key on the keyboard is gone...the key is actually still on the keyboard but the e is no longer visible. All of the other keys look fine, "n" and "o" is slightly faded but the e is gone. Weird, huh? I guess Nicole is to blame - she has all three of those letters in her name! I'm thankful it's not the "i" - that would be embarrassing. :-)

John was not well yesterday, he ended up spending nearly the entire day in bed. He hadn't had a great deal of sleep over the last few weeks so it was catch up time!

Nicole went to play paintball with friends. Then out for dinner - it was her girlfriend's birthday. We have the rule - one social event a weekend. When I called her around 7 to see what the plan was, she asked if she could sleep over at the house of the friend whom she'd slept over LAST night...again. It's a blessing you can't actually reach through a phone and throttle someone. Her single social event for the weekend had been going on for 24 hours and she still asked for more. Needless to say, she's in the doghouse now. Any suggestions for a fair punishment? I'm ready to stick her in her room until July. Fairness is not my strength at the moment, so help if you're able!!

Lisette told us that one of the boys (16 yrs. old) at the after party Friday night ordered a bottle of wine at the restaurant. Then drank the majority of it himself. Welcome to Argentina. She wasn't impressed with his drunkenness though she did admit that she had a sip of the wine. We've offered her sips of wine ourselves and have had the long discussions about the difference between use and abuse of alcohol. I'm hoping this was a scenario that showed the extremes outside of parental lecturing.

Jake's been good! LOL He's been watching too much TV but we're going to go play some tennis this afternoon so to get us all out and moving!

Talk to you later!!