Becker Business

**Reading to the boys downstairs, Trent asked me why the middle finger meant so many swear words when it is just a finger. We talked about it. He said, what if someone went to war and lost all of their fingers but the middle. It would be OK. So Grant, "What if a robber taped some one's fingers down, but not the middle, then remote controlled it into the middle of a city?" Yikes!

**Trent and Grant loved TJ and Taylee's I-Pod Touches . . . so the obsession began. Trent could not go to sleep until he figured out on paper how he was going to earn money. Grant could not go to sleep because he was crying that he could not earn that much money. The next morning when I got up Trent was upstairs. Come to find out, he had made calendars on the copy machine until his birthday. They were all numbered the same and he wrote in the months. Each day had "$1" written in it. His plan was to earn a dollar a day till his birthday. Then he started selling some of Josh's watches (from China) at school. Each day, he was making new lists! Many of them - - to figure out math and keep track of who and what colors ordered. I don't know what to keep and what to chuck!

**Since my surgery, and not sleeping many nights after (kids, not pain), I am very tired and feel I cannot catch up. We let Lydia cry about 20 minutes last night. She is doing so much better!! I think it will make such a difference!! The bonus room is crazy . . . each boy has made a house. Trent's is the fullest!! Josh gets home late from school . . . when it is before 10:45pm we are thrilled!! Come on March!!