Language Barrier???

The costs associated with running a household the size of ours can make your heart race and almost always it enduces waves of nauseau.....


Jeremy and I have had the "stomach flu" since late last week and over this weekend...It takes a little introspection to determine if what we are feeling is truly stomach flu or just the physical symptoms of our "crazy" home life...... NOPE this time, we are REALLY sick.

Luckily for us it seems that when one of us is really feeling bad, the other is at a decent place and can "man the ship".......

Sunday afternoon, the weather was very inviting and after days of being cooped up sick in bed, we wandered down together, hand in sick hand, in our pajama pants and hooded sweatshirts, and sat outside on our back deck. The trip outside was two-fold 1) to enjoy some fresh air
2) to make sure we werent hallucenating.....

You see, from our upstairs bedroom window we thought we saw what looked like a hired yard crew cleaning up our yard. ....Confused, we went down to investigate.

Upon closer inspection we find that it is indeed a yard crew- and as we finally agreed, a hired one at that.... It just so happens that they also live here, do their homework here, complain about life not being fair here and constantly try to renegotiate everything from bedtime to curfew to what should be constituted as an accepatable grade ......

The Kids Kenzie(18) we renamed her Consuela
Sawyer(17) Guadalupe
Bennett(12) Maria
Ian (12) Carlos
Ethan (11) Juan

Were in various stages of yanking, pulling, twisting, raking and bagging leaves..... To say they were happy about it would be a lie- to say that they were organized a bigger lie--- but they were actually having fun..... Darwin and Oliver were out there chasing eachother around, and at one point Oliver spread himself out on the diving board.

Towards the end- the kids(i mean workers) started to complain and ask if they got paid for this...... We calmly reminded them what we pay in cell phones and allowances and realized that we could have professional help inside and out........ Consuela, Guadalupe, Maria, Carlos and Juan got really quitet very very quickly...... No habla english????