It's been a long weekend.

Burst pipe underneath the foundation of the house....still no continuous hot water, but we got the okay to turn on the water heater for short bursts of time.

We have insurance (yay!) but also a deductible (boo!).

Werner's car does not start unless it is jumped. We will deal with this tomorrow.

Werner's school was offering free babysitting for teachers from 4pm-8pm today....we have really been looking forward to going out to a nice dinner alone. Alas, EVERYBODY EXCEPT US cancelled because their kids were sick. And we felt really bad making the supervising teacher show up to watch our kids. So we ordered Pizza Hut.

We have had between 8 and 9 dogs all weekend. Werner just left to take four home, and it feels amazingly quiet with only four remaining.

We put up Christmas lights outside the house this afternoon and have two happy children. Christmas shopping was finished before car and water pipes broke. We had a fun Christmas party with our church group last night. I got to take a nap and Werner and Rand built an elaborate train track. We'll see what adventures are in store for us tomorrow.