Incidentals

• Our Dossier is in Alaska! One step closer to Beijing!
• Our dryer is broken. Not only is it broken, but they aren't coming to look at it for another ten days! They don't want to come until the parts for the knob come in even though they haven't even looked at it to determine that the knob is broken. I also found out that you are supposed to keep your receipt to prove a warranty! I thought keeping the warranty book was enough, but I have learned otherwise. The good news is, this particular Model of Maytag wasn't even made until May of 2007 meaning we couldn't possibly have owned it more than a year. That's a relief as the repair man coming out costs $65 minimum.
• The taxes are done dude! (Thanks Lisa, for the offer of your husband's services. I was actually thinking about that this week and how lucky you are to have an accountant in the family.) The good news is, we don't have to pay $4,000 like we did a few years ago and will instead get a nice return -- a great, big blessing.
• I watched William today while Tif ran some errands. I also took him out on a walk with Scrubs so that Scrubs could get used to the stroller. The good news is that both boys did great! Scrubs seems to like walking next to the stroller, as if he is actually accomplishing something instead of just walking for no reason at all.
• Speaking of my Scrubs . . . if you think of it, please pray for my Scrubby's leg. Where his wound was, his leg has started to swell a bit. JB is keeping an eye on it and could puncture it to let whatever is trapped in there out, but he wants to wait a bit (and talk to his vet-friend on Monday.) Please just pray that the swelling goes down. I know he's a dog, but I also know God thinks he's a very cool dog! I also don't want to go back to the vet and pay them more money.
• I have another shower with some of the lady's on base next Thursday night at Jodi's house. This will be my fourth party -- we have a fifth scheduled with the women of the church after XY's arrival and a sixth in Chicago in August. How fun it is to keep celebrating!
• Tiffany AND Joia are going out of town for an entire week. Both of their husband's are on very busy rotations so they are taking the kids and going to family. At least Jodi is back to help keep our wifia numbers up. Sarah is also back in town so I suppose we will all survive until they return.
• We have decided (and hope you approve Bri) that we want the baby to come sometime in April -- late April would be fine. JB is on a hard rotation this month but starts an easier rotation come May. So we've decided it would be better if he could get out of the hard rotation and then have the easier rotation during our first two weeks back. Of course, this is out of our hands, but here's to hoping . . .