Worse and worse.

The rodent is gone, we hope and believe - at least there have been no signs of it in the past couple of days. But the appliance repair guy was here today and feels it has chewed so many things in the dishwasher that it will probably be cheaper to replace it than to fix it. Plus, it stinks because it's full of droppings.

Argh!!! There goes several hundred dollars down the drain.

In other news, school is going well. The 3rd graders in Owen's class are supposed to do 32 pages of math homework this week. So far it seems to be fine. He's not complaining about it. They are doing a lot of basics, review, money, word problems and so forth. He had quite a giggle over a word problem featuring a child named "Emil." He was reading out loud to me and read it "Email." "Email wants to buy a pencil for 15 cents and he has 50 cents." He thought that was quite hilarious.