Mare's Mess

We have more stuff to add to our collection. Maly has been bugging us to get her a video game system so she can play games on the TV. She has friends who have them and she always loves to play them. She still had some birthday money and so we helped her put that aside and then she could add to it each week when she got her allowance and when she had enough she could buy one. We started looking at Ebay and found some units for $35-45. Then Matt mentioned to his students that we might be in the market for a video system in the near future and one student offered to sell him his old Nintendo 64 for $10. It also came with Donkey Kong. Maly had that much so he got it for her. She is loving it. Matt and the kids had to make a run to the used game store and she also picked up a new game called Rampage 2 that she bought. Then some friends dropped by when they heard about the new system and brought her a Mario Karts. We're finding that the video time is definitely going to be limited, but we're also finding it to be a great motivator to get them to do things we want them to do - and not do things they shouldn't be doing.


The day after she got her Nintendo, Maly was sucking on a piece of a balloon that had popped. I told her not to suck on that. She asked me why and I told her she could choke. She asked me what would happen if she choked and I told her she could die.
Her response, "But I want to see Jesus!"

"You can see Jesus another day. I want you here for a while longer."

She says, "And I do have my new video games to play!"