Simeon, our adoptive son who's name I added to the Christmas card list
came home at 4 am Friday morning.  His biological dad had driven over
from Washington State and Rob, Mandy, and I were there to greet him.  He
looks good, though his skin is a bright red which makes that red hair of
his look ginger colored.

Simeon said he had to go to Sears with his dad, so I asked him to give
me some ball park figures on a kitchen stove, so that I would have one
less place to price them at.  They did some looking and Sim came home
with some figures for me.  I thought great, about $4-600 for a stove
looks about right, but lets see what else is out there.  After all we
have some money coming back from taxes.

So today I get a phone call from Simeon, saying he needs me to advise
him about some clothing purchases.  I've been trying to get him to
change his image from the merely goofy to something a girl would be more
interested in.  So Rob and I show up to meet Simeon and his dad and they
take us to Sears and tell us that they've bought us a stove, they just
want me to pick it out.  We argued with them for over a half hour.

Sears is delivering my new stove on Tuesday.  We will have to pull the
old drop in stove out, install a pigtail receptacle, and cut away four
inches of counter, which is doable because there is about four inches of
extension on the cupboards that can be removed and the stove fitted in.
 What am I going to do with that kid and his dad?

So Rob and I are talking about getting us a third computer and giving
this one to Rob as most of the games he plays are on it, and I will get
the new one for the net and classes, if I can get my butt back into
school.

Pam S. bemused