all in due time
With David out of the house 99.9 percent of the time, the other kids are coming out of their shells. I think one of the hardest things is having to call upstairs two or three or four times to get their attention. Most of that is because they are teenagers and have teenage things on their mind. Least of all is listening for the parental units. I learned something this morning. When you tell two boys that they need to have their sister start the van so it can warm up a bit before we leave for church, you need to get verbal confirmation. Physical sign from the two boys is not enough to indicate that they both understood what I wanted, and processed it enough to realize what they were supposed to do. So because we had to scrape a quarter of an inch of ice off the windshield,