My Brilliant Idea!

Today, I had a brilliant idea!  We are not using the awful, crunchy sheets and comforters that Aramco gave us when we arrived.  They had been tossed into our enormous closet and have become a favorite home for the cat.  Mike and I are borrowing sheets, so we're not using ours, and now that the E-box came and we got the boys' bedding for their room, we really don't need the Aramco bedding any more.  Today, I realized that we could use the comforters as rugs!  It gives the kids something soft to sit on when they play on the floor, rather than the cold, hard tile, and it gives the living room a more human feel - just something fabric and soft, instead of all these hard surfaces.  Ingenious!  Makes playing in the tent (an E-box arrival) much more fun. 

My brilliant idea! 

It was cold and windy today, and by the end of the day, so much dust had been kicked up into the air that you could look directly into the sun (without going blind, or hurting your eyes, or even needing to look away).  We spent most of the day taking turns napping and doing stuff inside (like Mike took a couple of doors off the hinges for me, and hung some brackets for mini blinds, and nearly electrocuted himself by trying to adjust the temperature of the water heater - he accidentally welded his Swiss Army Knife to the water heater in the electrocution process -oops), so by the end of the day, we were all bored (despite the electrocution scare) and the boys got to watch a movie.  Here's our TV setup in the living room - thank you, thank you, whoever invented laptops!!

Watching "The Squirrel Show" (= Ice Age).  Note Sleep Sack and Hippo are still permanently attached.