Parentheticals

On Monday we went to Sara's 7th grade orientation for her new Junior high School. She is very excited to do acting and art classes.  Alison and Mike went to meet with the cabinet guy on Tuesday so that we could finalize our cabinet choices for the new kitchen.  On Wednesday Sara went to a play rehearsal for her part in Seussical the Musical. This week during outside time all of the kids who participate in outside time and Mike have been playing a LARP game. We go around the nearby Church and we each have our own characters: Michael is a cyborg named Stinky Pete who shoots rockets and has the ability to charge up with batteries. Timmy is a son of a wind God who uses wind Magic. Timmy also has a dragon who is a water dragon. Gideon is an apprentice to the god of wizards and he has a katana which was broken. Elsa is a pink ice dragon named Rapunzel who also has beautiful golden hair. Rocket is an assassin dog named Shadow who can use lightning and fire magic. We tend to go on epi...

On Wednesday Sara got news that she was invited to participate in the play as a leopard. It was the character she wanted, so she is very happy. On Saturday we had many wars members come over to our house to help us move our stuff from the portable storage units in front of the house to the Waters house spare room. It was hard work and took 2 hours, but surprisingly enough we got everything in except for a few small boxes. On Sunday we went to church like usual, and on the way home Mike noticed that one of the shipping containers that we were storing our stuff in in front of the house had its door open. Mike went to shut the door and found a comforter blanket and three knives and the container. He threw away the knives on the comforter blanket in our trash can, assuming that some hobo or some kids had gone into the container.  He later learned that apparently Timmy and James have been playing in the container and those blankets and knives were James's. So, Mike had to get the stuff ...