Beth has been working on a quilt lately so on Saturday morning I took the kids out of the house for a few hours to let her work. Having found out about the Menard's in Goshen, I thought it would be a good place to take them. It worked out pretty well. Alex got to run around and go through all the sliding glass doors, Missy rode around in the cart, I shopped for man stuff, they ate McNuggets and had some yummy yogurt pretzels Alex found for sale there. We were gone for at least 3 hours of quality sewing time. Afterwards, we took the kids to family swim time at the YMCA. We had the kids in the warm water pool for around an hour. They both loved it! It's the first time Alex has been in the pool at the Y since he was around a year old, Missy's first time ever. After swimming, we got them both to take naps, and they slept LONG and HARD. We had to wake them up. We had a new furnace installed last week. The furnace guys evaluated our old one and concluded it was installed in 1984 and now running at about 50% efficiency (maybe why we got our utility bill raised to $326 a month recently) so was pulled the trigger and got a new one. I'm getting a home equity line of credit to pay for it. Maybe I'll be lucky and the utility bills will come down in anticipation of the 94% efficient furnace running here. It better.